"I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'"

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Source : "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

Graham Norton

#Growing Up Quotes #Gay Quotes #People Quotes

“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.”
“If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.”

Source : Howard Mumford Jones (1952). “The Bright Medusa”
“The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.”
“It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.”

Source : Source: drwhointerviews.wordpress.com
“I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.”
“The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.”

Source : United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1 Oct. 1837 See RalphWaldo Emerson 29; Shipley 1; Thoreau 3
“Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.”
“See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your leaders and representatives dares tell you: You are a "little, common man." Understand the double meaning of these words: "little" and "common." Don't run. Have the courage to look at yourself!”

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