Harvey Milk Quotes
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
