Bette Davis Quotes

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Bette Davis

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• I have many, many gay friends.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Many

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Man
  • Design
  • Gay

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Economy

• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Golf

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Children
  • Day

• Gay rights are human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Gay

• You would think there were 'Straights Only' water fountains the way Democrats carry on so (as if any gay man would drink nonbottled water)

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Water
  • Gay

• Gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are going to start aborting.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Life
  • Gay

• As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Gay

• I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Music
  • Career
  • Song

• I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Time
  • Age
  • Parents

• I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.

  

  Don Lemon
  • World
  • Gay

• We're no longer saying that people who are pro traditional marriage are bigots, and we're also not saying that people who are, like me, a Republican that is for gay marriage, is less of a Republican.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Everywhere I have sought peace and not it, except in a corner with a book.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • Book
  • Peace
  • Found

• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
  • Kids
  • True
  • Today

• It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Language
  • Said
  • Firsts

• Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Gay
  • Liberation