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.

Michael Musto

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • God
  • Society
  • Dying

• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Guy
  • Lasts
  • Jokes

• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Man
  • Boys
  • Lasts

• The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Country
  • Age
  • Pleasure

• Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

  

  Saxby Chambliss
  • Lasts
  • Congress
  • Agriculture

• Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Jesus
  • Word
  • Homosexuality

• I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • Moments

• If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

  

  Ernest King
  • Problem
  • Lasts
  • Yesterday

• I think whenever Ahmadinejad opens his mouth in forums, especially in front of the U.N. General Assembly, those that are listening, especially Western officials, European, American, even Chinese and Russian officials, I think, after listening to Ahmadinejad, they have even less confidence that there exists a mature political leadership in Iran which is amenable to some type of a diplomatic compromise.

  

  Karim Sadjadpour
  • Political
  • Listening
  • Chinese

• 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