"I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are."

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Source : "Carson Kressley: There’s nothing better than having Oprah in your corner". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 23, 2011.

Carson Kressley

#Being Yourself Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”
“As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.”
“Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.”
“Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.”

Source : "David Cross From Arrested Development". Interview With Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.
“Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.”
“In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.”
“The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.”
“The great men of antiquity were poor.”

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