Jimmy Carter Quotes

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

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• Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • World
  • Man
  • Me

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Reagan

• In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Opinion
  • Body
  • Gay

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Career
  • Start
  • Queen

• I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Thought
  • President
  • Knew

• Gay rights are human rights.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Gay

• I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?

  

  Don Lemon
  • People
  • Guy
  • Black

• Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.

  

  Don Lemon
  • Brain
  • Gay

• The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • People
  • Gay

• We're no longer saying that people who are pro traditional marriage are bigots, and we're also not saying that people who are, like me, a Republican that is for gay marriage, is less of a Republican.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Gay

• Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
  • Kids
  • True
  • Today

• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Precious

• I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Opportunity
  • Facts
  • Accepting

• If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Church
  • Distance
  • Wrong

• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Gay
  • President
  • Platform