Evan Wolfson Quotes
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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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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.
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No more stress, now I'm straightNow I get it, now I take time to thinkBefore I make mistakes just for my family's sake part of me left yesterdayThe heart of me is strong todayNo regrets I'm blessed to say that old me dead and gone away
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I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.
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When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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I believe that one-product wonders come and go.
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Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
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I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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There is no marriage without engagement.
