Armistead Maupin Quotes
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
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I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.
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I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
