Orientation Quotes - Page 8

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  Lance Bass

  Sex, Color, Should Have

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• I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Rights, Cities

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• People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

  Gerard Way

  Selfish, Race, People

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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• The term 'sexual orientation'...is basically a code word for homosexuality.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Homosexuality, Term

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• I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations.

  Rick Santorum

  Problem, Accepting, Homosexual

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2003.

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, Careers, America

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Honesty, Gay, Darkness

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• No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

  Portia Simpson-Miller

  Should

  "Jamaican gay rights activists hopeful of repealing anti-homosexuality law" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

  Diana Ross

  Gay, Color, People

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• How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Boys, Two

  "Read a Letter Fiona Apple Wrote to a Young Gay Fan in 2000" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 30,2012.

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• Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, Assessment, Speak

  Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

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• I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

  Tennessee Williams

  Gay, Thinking, Lgbt

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• No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

  Erin Gruwell

  Race, Views, May

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.46, Broadway Books

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• It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Interview with Winston Leyland on 1973. "Conversations with Christopher Isherwood". Book edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, p. 106, 2001.

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• The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.

  Cat Deeley

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.

  Seth Klarman

  Gun, Perspective, Long

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• Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Two, Anxiety

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin

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• A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

  Ben Okri

  Heart, People, Mad

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• When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

  D. A. Carson

  Heart, Long, People

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• No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail. Now man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Religious, Flower

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• Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself.

  Esther Perel

  Men, Transition, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong, Men, Want

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Political Opinions

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Book, Gay

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