Gay Quotes — Page 35

Artist, Musician, Activist

“I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.”

Nice Love Is Gay

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Tammy Baldwin

Politician

“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.”

Inspirational Motivational Gay

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Vincent Van Gogh

Painter

“It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.”

Gay Suicide

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Sandra Brown

Author

“People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.”

Long Gay

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Teddy Thompson

Musician

“I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.”

Writing Beautiful Gay

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.”

Song Sports Gay

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Teju Cole

Author, Photographer

“You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's his life, no less so than your life is yours.”

Real Character Gay

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.”

Wise Hero Gay

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Rand Paul

Politician

“I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.”

Thinking Believe Gay

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science”

Men Gay Ignorance

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TJ

Thomas Jane

Actor

“When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?”

Mean Kids Gay

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Scott Simon

Journalist

“Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays.”

Kind Gay Cracks

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