"So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, itâ€™s extremely tacky and datedâ€”like an old aunt who still talks about â€˜colored peopleâ€™ or limps her wrist to suggest someoneâ€™s gay."

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Source : "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

David Plotz

#Gay Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Names Quotes

“He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.”

Source : "Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?". CNN, January 7, 2004.
“Our focus must always be on building people up.”
“I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.”
“The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.”
“I've done choir since I was tiny, and I've always tried to get into plays. They all just meshed together. Now with my career, especially with music, people are like, "Which one do you pick?" I don't pick either. They're just different expressions of who I am.”
“Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?”

Source : Song: Love Is Not Against The Law, Album: Mockingbird, 2005
“I firmly believe in the value of books: it's the way to pass on our work, and it allows us to explore new ways to express our creativity. In this specific case, Mariano Vivanco shot some images of David for this project's purpose.”
“It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.”

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