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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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
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I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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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.