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"To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up."
"So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways."
"There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea."
"There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions."
"There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest."
"Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say."
"No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions."
"Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment."
"The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot."
"[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior."
"Get out of harms way."
"If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be."
"The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story."
"Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word."
"We are addicted to being the way we are"
"Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth."
"You can’t get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way."
"In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again."
"I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times."
"Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world."
