"I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be."

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Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

John Amaechi

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Coming Out Quotes

“How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.”

Source : Source: www.middleeasteye.net
“I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.”
“Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press
“My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.”
“No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.”
“Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.”
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”

Source : "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1670.

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