Andrew Sullivan Quotes - Page 2

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• Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Generations, Born

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fighting, Escaping, Civilization

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• I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Frustrated, Republican

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

  Andrew Sullivan

  New York, Reputation, New York Times

  "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Feels, Stills, Ideals

  Andrew Sullivan (1999). “Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival”, Vintage

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• I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Grief, Politics, Whining

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• The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Dirty, Naughty, Secret

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• The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Love You, Love Is, Romantic Love

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• Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Weather, Homosexuality

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• In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Religious, Lying, Law

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• I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

  Andrew Sullivan

  "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 18, 2011.

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• No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Should, Spouse

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• We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Government, Bridges

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• Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Mean, Giving

  "Of Their Choosing". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. September 20, 2007.

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• [T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Magic, Politics, Wave

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• Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Running, Men, Ice

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• You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Jobs, Home, Mean

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Prayer, Firsts, Conversation

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sleep, Men, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Pain, Gay, Desire

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• My father has been a rock for me every since.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Rocks, Has Beens

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sex, Love Is, Thinking

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Jesus, Journey, Spirit

  "I Came Out First to God". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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