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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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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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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Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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This we do know: a world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
