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.
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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.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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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.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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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.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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...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.
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Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
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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.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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For me, my 50s was the decade when my tolerance for heels faded. I'm in good shape and, at 8 st. 3 lb., I'm still the same weight I was in my 30s, but as you get older, the weight of your body shifts somehow.
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I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
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Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.
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He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
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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.
