David McAlmont Quotes
Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do.
Quotes to Explore
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
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As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.
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The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
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Homophobia is easier for black people where black people are concerned. They feel they have the right to correct me on my behavior. There is this notion that homosexuality is something that white people do.
