Cleve Jones Quotes
There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
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I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
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There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.
