Armistead Maupin Quotes
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.
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Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.
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The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
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As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.
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But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
