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“When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”
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“The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.”
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“If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.”
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“Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.”
Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226
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“I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong... and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?”
Source : Larry Kramer (2000). “The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays”, p.97, Grove Press
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“The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
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“I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China.”