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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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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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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I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before.
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I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.
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I am intrigued by women I have conversations with.
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North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It's really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
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Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.
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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.