Dan Savage Quotes - Page 4

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• Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

  Dan Savage

  Writing, People, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

  Dan Savage

  Skulls, People, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh, my god. I'd be a terrible doctor. I don't like to touch other people. There's a lot of gruesome stuff in my line of work to feel or to admit. I'm sure everyone's expecting me to say "proctologist," but actually no, I don't want to be a proctologist. Probably want to be a dentist, because you don't have to touch much of the other person's body, just their face or mouth.

  Dan Savage

  People, Dentist, Expecting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.

  Dan Savage

  Growing Up, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  Dan Savage

  Expectations, Infidelity, Important

  "Dan Savage Makes Nonmonogamy Sound So Darn Sensible" by Rachael Larimore, www.slate.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Adults, Stability

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• You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.

  Dan Savage

  Mom, Running, War

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

  Dan Savage

  Ephemeral, Radio, Bricks

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I feel like I'm a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody's grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this.

  Dan Savage

  Past, Guy, Advice

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. But it matters very much to the knuckle-draggers and Christianists and whack jobs in Bush's ever smaller base.

  Dan Savage

  Jobs, Gay, Care

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

  Dan Savage

  Thinking, Guy, Parks

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

  Dan Savage

  School, Goes On, Firsts

  "Dan Savage on 'The Commitment'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2005.

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• First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit and tone of your letter, and I think I did pretty well. [] I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh are unsightly-characterized as “hate speech.”

  Dan Savage

  Hate, Thinking, Annoyed

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• I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Believe, Environment

  "Gay Marriage: The Dan Savage Interview". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2006.

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• It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Long, People

  "Marriage can be right for us all, says Dan Savage. But let's not get carried away with monogamy" by Wyatt Buchanan, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2005.

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• How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

  Dan Savage

  Happiness, America, Promise

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• I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

  Dan Savage

  Teacher, Class, Baking

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• Is it adultery if I’m committing it at one end of a guy and he’s committing it at the other end of that same guy?

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Guy, Adultery

  "Dan Savage Makes Stephen Colbert Break Character" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. July 13, 2011.

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• In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

  Dan Savage

  Agreement, Numbers, Adoption

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• A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

  Dan Savage

  People, Way, Online

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• The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

  Dan Savage

  Promise, Revolutionary, Founding

  Dan Savage (2003). “Skipping Towards Gomorrah”, p.8, Penguin

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• The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Issues, People

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• Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

  Dan Savage

  Valentines Day, Mother, Lucky

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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