Andre Leon Talley Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
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The t is silent, as in Harlow.
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If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.
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I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.
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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.
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I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
