Dan Savage Quotes
Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
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I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
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Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
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Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."
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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
