Coming Out Of The Closet Quotes

• The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Gay, Insults You

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 21, 2008.

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

  C.C. Hunter

  Communication, Long, Beginners

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• What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

  Christopher Rice

  Challenges, Important, Trying

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• It was nobody’s choice. It was a chemical reaction. I had to cut it. It basically fell out. Somebody had said to me that it was just because, you know, you’re trying to make Gail, you know, because she’s just now coming out of the closet…Not even for 2 seconds would we ever do that. It literally was a really bad hair experience.

  Charlotte Sullivan

  Cutting, Hair, Choices

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• I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gay, Coming Out, Closets

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• People have been willing to accept that the government is lying to us, but they are now more willing to accept the concept of aliens and other life forms. There's just a slew of stuff out there right now. It's been people's closet belief system, and now it's coming out of the closet.

  Gillian Anderson

  Lying, Government, People

  "The Voice of Reason Speaks on FOX's 'X-Files'". St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 02, 1994.

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• We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Mom, Dad, Memories

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• I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

  Jamie Farr

  Reading, Tired, Substance

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