Harvey Milk Quotes

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

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• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Way
  • Understanding

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fight
  • Start
  • Nobody

• The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Dog
  • Fight
  • Size

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Once

• I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fight
  • Against
  • Gang

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Harder

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Child
  • Fight
  • Find

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Fight
  • Name

• I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Knowledge
  • Fight
  • Convinced

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Space
  • Design
  • Buildings

• The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Right
  • Lines
  • Circles

• Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Fight
  • Closet doors