Dan Savage Quotes
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention and get to wear a beautiful dress. But that sounds awful to me because that is like getting ready to walk down the red carpet.
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Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
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I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
