Dan Savage Quotes
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate - and even that could probably be waived.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.'
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Straight people are everywhere!
