Alexis Arquette Quotes
Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.
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He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians!' till truth, reason, and calmness were all drowned in noise.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
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Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.
