Evan Wolfson Quotes
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.Evan Wolfson
Quotes to Explore
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris -
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff -
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I don't do meetings.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
Garry Marshall -
I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
Zach LaVine
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
Laura Dern -
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
Rafael Yglesias -
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde -
Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
Randeep Hooda -
When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Pat Conroy -
I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.
Taron Egerton
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As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
Edmund Spenser -
'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'
Samuel Foote -
It is time to think about the future, and how this ongoing conflict will breed further hate, violence and terror across the world. How can we fight the ideological battle, if we do not chart the way forward towards Palestinian-Israeli peace? Our countries, united, must provide the momentum and chart the way forward towards a final, comprehensive settlement.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
Aeschylus -
My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.
Ai Weiwei -
Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
Kali Uchis
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Antonio Machado -
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein -
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
Bashar al-Assad -
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
Barbara Mikulski -
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.
Evan Wolfson