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.

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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.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Forever
  • Nothing
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Worked
  • Ministers
  • Homosexuality

• Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Want
  • Lasts
  • Crowns

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Sometimes
  • Singing
  • Feels

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Lasts
  • Track

• Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Lasts

• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Homosexuality
  • Proposition
  • Heterosexuality

• The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Want
  • Church
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Way

• 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?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Competition
  • Hard

• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Mother
  • Persons
  • Lasts

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Gay
  • Homosexuality

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Illness
  • Cruelty

• I started hitting the ball a lot better a few weeks ago, and just the putter wasn't working. And putting a new putter in the bag last week, it just helped.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Lasts
  • Hitting
  • Bags

• The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Life
  • Bears
  • Rabbi

• 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.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Lasts
  • Homosexuality
  • Columnists