Harvey Milk Quotes

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Important
  • Forget

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Couple
  • Court

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• I love collaborating with different people.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Different
  • Collaborating

• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Magic
  • Expectations

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • People
  • Past
  • Crazy

• When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Stand
  • Risks

• We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Grow
  • Aging

• For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

  

  Ann Rule
  • People
  • Why

• When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

  

  Maureen O'Hara

• Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

  

  John O'Hara
  • Time
  • Good

• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

  

  Whittaker Chambers
  • Experience
  • Innocence
  • Seldom

• The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Bad
  • Red
  • Ugly

• Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • People
  • Unofficial mayor
  • Castro Street