Nancy Garden Quotes

When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

Nancy Garden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1938 - June 23, 2014

Topics

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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

TimeIdeasIntellectualQuestionOwn

I'm not scared of Bayern Munich.

Toni Kroos

ScaredMunich

The IAEA should be worried, as I am worried about it, because North Korea is now a nuclear power state with a ballistic missile program.

Tom Cotton

PowerI AmNowNuclear PowerBecause

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Robert Winston

ProgressImportantLegislationPace

There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.

Louise Nurding

ChildrenTrustPeopleLookWould

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Dick Van Dyke

ExerciseLivingSeventiesStayAvoid

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

Chris Avellone

LifeGoodThinkChooseMoralityWay

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Cher

GoodBusinessTimeYouTakesReally

I'm very opinionated.

Brian Eno

OpinionatedVery

I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they were torture. They are not.

Bret Stephens

I AmSorryDefendTortureEveryAm

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

Anthony Geary

LiarStepChildBelieveActingLies

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

Phil Gramm

PlanYouIndiaWantMoreAnything

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