Dan Savage Quotes
Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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I know what poverty is.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.
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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.
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People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.