Zacharia Wahls Quotes

When I delivered my speech defending same-sex marriage back in 2011, I had no idea it would one day lead me back to the Iowa legislature.

Zacharia Wahls

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• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

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• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

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• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

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• I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

  

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• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

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• I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.

  

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• It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

  

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• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

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• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  

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• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

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• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

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• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  

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• He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

  

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• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  

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• I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

  

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• There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

  

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• I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

  

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• I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

  

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• A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of songs that structurally are quite bluesy. Sound-wise, there's a lot of indie as well. But you can't really say I'm pop-blues, because that's insulting to blues. It just can't exist.

  

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• Am I eating chicken or tuna?

  

  Jessica Simpson

• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Earth

• When I delivered my speech defending same-sex marriage back in 2011, I had no idea it would one day lead me back to the Iowa legislature.

  

  Zacharia Wahls
  • Marriage
  • Same-Sex
  • Lowa