Dan Savage Quotes
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.
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My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
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I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
