Sexuality Quotes - Page 12

• I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

  Alan Ball

  Thinking, Soul, Window

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• This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Europe, America, Intellectual

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• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Ideas, Age

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• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

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• Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

  Sophia Bush

  Self Confidence, Men, People

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• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  A. S. Byatt

  World, Absence, Reason

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• You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

  Kirk Cameron

  Believe, Sacred, Humans

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Heart, School, Mean

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• I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

  Julia Child

  Long, Wells, Ifs

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• I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Age, Might, Form

  Interview with Wes Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.

  Denis Diderot

  People, Lovers, Absurd

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• Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

  Maureen Dowd

  Agreement, People, Style

  "Should Michelle Cover Up?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2009.

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• If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

  Michel Foucault

  Birthday, Power, Age

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

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• That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

  Stephen Fry

  Gender, Homophobes, Euphoria

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

  Stephen Fry

  Gay, Kissing, Thinking

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• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, Reading, School

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• The unnatural, that too is natural.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Nature, Natural

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• I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Berries, Looks, Chance

  "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

  Jasmine Guy

  Greater

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• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Cowboy, America, Brokeback Mountain

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• I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Law, Unions

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• But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Believe, Should Have

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• I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Proud, Steering, Bigs

  "Neil Patrick Harris: A Man's Man". Interview with Bill Keith, www.out.com. March 8, 2008.

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