Damon Galgut Quotes
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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If you have to forecast, forecast often.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.
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After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.
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Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
