Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.
If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.
I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.
Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.
I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.