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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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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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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Europe can be saved.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
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The idea of red-washing or blue-washing an entire county because a few more people vote one way or the other does a disservice to the people who live there.
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
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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.
