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Michael Steele

"Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black.""

Source : "Michael Steele, au revoir" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

Michael Steele

#Morning Quotes #Gay Quotes #Makeup Quotes

“It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.”
“Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.”
“the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.”
“Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.”
“I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.”
“While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spiritâ€¦Â Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.”

Source : Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland
“I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.”
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

Source : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.

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