"Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Ridley

#Father Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.”
“I was Justin Timberlake personal stylist for years, so I went to his video shoots and his gigs with Madonna, and I did it very hands-on. It was a great way to experience and understand that part of American culture.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it.”
“What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.”

Source : "Malawi's head of state: 'Why I'm selling presidential jet'". Interview with Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.
“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”
“At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.”
“It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""”
“It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.”

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