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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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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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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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
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A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.
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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
