Michael Warner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
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It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,
-- Michael Warner
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Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
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Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
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All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.
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A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.
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You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.
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Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.
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