Michael J. Willett Quotes
I feel like it's important for young people - practically, young gay people - to know what to do and how to handle bigotry and opposition and where to go to have those resources of help and guidance. I think it's important.
Michael J. Willett
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
Katha Pollitt
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Abraham Cahan
The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
Federica Montseny
If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
Viktor E. Frankl
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Oliver Herford
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
Akira Kurosawa
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
Jimmy Iovine
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.
Jan Koum
Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
Bahá'u'lláh
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
David Guetta
I feel like it's important for young people - practically, young gay people - to know what to do and how to handle bigotry and opposition and where to go to have those resources of help and guidance. I think it's important.
Michael J. Willett
