Edmund White Quotes

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

Edmund White

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A man with God is always in the majority.

John Knox

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I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

Angela Kinsey

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The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer

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The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Robert Baldwin Ross

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I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again.

Dolores O'Riordan

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By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.

Clayton M. Christensen

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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman

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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

Alison Gopnik

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I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.

Thomas H. Cook

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I never really consider myself an awkward person, but once I got into stand-up, I kept hearing that word. The only thing I can trace it back to is that my mom had a similar sensibility. She always made people uncomfortable.

Tig Notaro

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I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Tim Hudson

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Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?

Jamie Zawinski

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