Amber Hollibaugh Quotes

For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.

Amber Hollibaugh

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• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Know
  • Laugh

• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Moment
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunities

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • You
  • Fall
  • Back

• I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Films
  • Hindi

• I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Real
  • Imagination

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• ...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Action

• Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Great

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Beautiful
  • Fool
  • Shoes

• I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse:Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Doubt

• I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Time

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Reality

• For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.

  

  Amber Hollibaugh
  • Reality
  • Movement
  • Political Power