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Patrick Leahy Quotes

Seeking equal protection under our laws for the LGBT community is the right thing to do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 31, 1940

Topics

Community The Right Thing Right Equal

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.

Good Light Best Me Voice Hide

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Actor Director Because How Learned

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

Personality Free Now Own Artists

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

Justice Commitment Words I Am Saying

What I am interested in is the present time.

Time I Am Present Interested Am

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

Life End Skills Talk Little Kids

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Unions Human Same Susceptible Ills

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Martin Niemoller

Speak Out Trade Because Did Then

I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.

Doing Know Manager Knowing Without

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine di Giovanni

Family Mother Women Children Sister

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

War World Black Think Someone Kind

I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.

Brian Azzarello

People Way Up Because Been Damaged

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