"Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives -- was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into."

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Source : "God and George W. Bush". www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2003.

Bill Keller

#Couple Quotes #Believe Quotes #Gay Quotes

“Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you”
“This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely.”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.141, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.”
“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.”
“We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.”
“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, youâ€™ve found life. Iâ€™m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are â€˜yoursâ€™ and which are â€˜mine.â€™ Itâ€™s past sorting out.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.140, Penguin
“If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.”
“The eyes have one language everywhere.”

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