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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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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In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.
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I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
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The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
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I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.
