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 make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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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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One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.
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Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?
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In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle.
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Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.
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We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.
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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.
