Gilbert Baker Quotes

Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.

Gilbert Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017

Topics

LookSewingFirstSingleKansasGet

I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

Jidenna

WorkNigeriaGhana

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Matt Taibbi

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To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

Anna Lindh

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I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana so... there was kind of a little half-pipe in my yard, and that was the extent of the skate terrain in Montana. So I've got to go out and make up for lost time.

Jeff Ament

TimeGrowing UpEnoughLostHealthy

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

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The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

Stephen Furst

TimeDayDevilOne Day At A TimeWay

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Tom Hooper

FatherMotherGrowing UpLearnLost

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

Tom Brokaw

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Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

Rudy Giuliani

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I guess haiku is an inspiration for me. Everyday, simple moments.

Misha Collins

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Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.

Jay Weatherill

GrowthGreatJobGovernmentStart

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

Jean Charest

SomeoneBelongs

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