Alan Cumming Quotes

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Alan Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 27, 1965

Topics

FearLiveLiePeopleSayingGay

The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

John Cornyn

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Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

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We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

John W. Snow

EnergyImportantAlaskaMoreAbility

Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.

Amy Jo Martin

BestSocial MediaSchoolBelieve

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Tony Benn

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I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Tom Perrotta

LoveBeautyGreatSchoolHigh School

Well, normally we don't think all that hard about titles.

Robert Forster

ThinkHardTitlesWellAbout

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Robbie Robertson

MeKnowLifestyleInterestWhole

What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.

Russell Banks

GoodI AmFindingYouKnowWant

Ballet Beautiful is a workout that transforms the body without overtaxing the system or joints.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I want total peace for Colombia.

Juan Manuel Santos

PeaceWantColombiaTotal

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

Jean Charest

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