Larry Kramer Quotes
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Once a song is done, for me, personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mixdown.
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I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
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Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
