Curtis Sliwa Quotes
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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I don't take vacations.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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The world is a force not a presence.
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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Michael Jackson did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them
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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
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If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.
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In any triangle the centre of gravity lies on the straight line joining any angle to the middle point of the opposite side.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.
