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.
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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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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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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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I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
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I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
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From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.
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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.
