I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
To me, the problem with the president is that he takes very authoritarian actions in terms of attacking democratic institutions and then… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
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The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very… — Grant Mudford Copy Share Image
I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong.… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
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Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I think the establishment donor class has begun to crumble. They're searching for [Marco] Rubio, trying to get some momentum there. But… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
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In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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We tend to think only in terms of what we think is plausible that we could pull off and decide that "that's… — Michael Neill Copy Share Image