"I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am."

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Source : "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

Jai Rodriguez

#Gay Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?”
“I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.”
“In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.”
“We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.”
“Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 12, 2013
“Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.”
“As a customer service representative; it is hard to deal with people who has an attitude when I pick up the phone.”
“We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.”

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