"The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground."

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Source : "Ever the Warrior / Gay rights icon Harry Hay has no patience for assimilation" by Dan Levy, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2000.

Harry Hay

#Running Quotes #Movement Quotes

“It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.”
“I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.”
“People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.”

Source : "Terry McAuliffe has reinvented the rules of fund raising and shattered all records, and he has become rich along the way. Is he the poster boy for reform?" by Michael Weisskopf, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2000.
“I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.”
“There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!”
“I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.
“Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.”

Source : William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.99, Milkweed Editions
“There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.”

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