Dan Savage Quotes

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Story

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Flaws

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• I don't like to tell lies.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Tell

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • I Believe

• I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Sin