Bruce Bawer Quotes
Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.
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Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
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Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
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Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
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Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
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You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.
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Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.
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Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.
