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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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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.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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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.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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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.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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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.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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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.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.
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The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.
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I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.
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I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
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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.
