David Wojnarowicz Quotes
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common ground on religious freedom and LGBT issues in Utah - one of the nation's most religious and conservative states - we can do it anywhere in the country.
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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I started out, as most astronomers do, with a university job. But in my generation, women weren't very welcome at universities, and so I found a job in the government. And the government was appreciably more welcoming.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
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To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.
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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
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I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.
