Alexis Arquette Quotes

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

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• When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Alone
  • Myself

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Believe
  • May
  • Government

• In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Home

• I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good And Bad

• I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

  Saadi
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Patience

• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Own

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • Brave
  • New York
  • Hip Hop

• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • She
  • Age
  • Wonder

• We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Made
  • Synch

• I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

  

  Benedetta Tagliabue
  • Believe

• There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Important
  • Song
  • Words

• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • People
  • Guy
  • Gay

• It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

  

  Alexis Arquette
  • People
  • Important