Michael Musto Quotes
It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
Quotes to Explore
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
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It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
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We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.
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Love lasts when the relationship comes first.
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Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.
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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!
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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
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It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
