Armistead Maupin Quotes
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I love bayou life.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.
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The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.
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Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
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I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
