Edmund White Quotes
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
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When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
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My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'
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I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
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I am not from your world or this one; I was born on the Sun. Sometimes our world becomes overcrowded because our people live so long. Our people are almost free of wars and illness, and sometimes our government officials send colonies to neighboring worlds.
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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
