Larry Kramer Quotes

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.

Larry Kramer

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We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

Joan Blades

FamilyTogetherFriends And Family

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

Jennifer Esposito

HeDuelMovedStopped

This is part of what makes me, ahem, an excellent houseguest: I'm game. I'm flexible. I'll make you feel okay about eating an entire chocolate cake in one sitting because I'm right there by your side with my own fork.

Jen Sincero

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Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlement over them.

Robert Nozick

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I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Sloane Crosley

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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

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When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

Ritchie Blackmore

YouCleanMessPlayingRecording

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

Lloyd Kaufman

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Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.

Doug Ducey

PositiveLeadershipCommunication

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Debbie Allen

WorkMovingMasterLikeSomeHow

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

David Tudor

YourselfYouFindSituationPossible

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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