Evan Wolfson Quotes
Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
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You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
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I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
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I could stuff a pillow with the amount of confetti I have had thrown at me. And could I sleep easily on that? No.
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I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.
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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
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Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.
