Orientation Quotes

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

  Vaclav Havel

  Soul, Humans, Darkest Times

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Style, Disorientation

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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• We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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• Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

  John de Ruiter

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• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Voice, Freedom Of Speech, Victim

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• The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.

  Olara Otunnu

  Religious, Children, Political

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, People

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• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  Philip J. Kaplan

  Way, Lasts, Ridiculous

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• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Government

  1982 Speech, 28 Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

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• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Jesus, Role Models, Example

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

  Neil Tennant

  Hate, Real, Moving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Sex, Race, Racism

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Respect, Believe

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• Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Men, World

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Christian, Views, Vocabulary

  "Gay Marriage Divides Black Religious Leaders". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 15, 2009.

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• Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

  Alan Dundes

  Expectations, Progress, Impossible

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