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  • I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
  • But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
  • Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
  • As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
  • To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
  • In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
  • I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
  • It's not that I don't take TV seriously. I take it very seriously. But I've got my priorities straight. Call it my extra gift. Without it, I would be devastated every day in Hollywood.
  • Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
  • As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
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  • Bobby Vinton As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Norman Mailer A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • André Gide A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bess Truman A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Ben Barnes Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Tristan Tzara Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
    Tristan Tzara
    Romanian poet and artist (ps. by Sami Rosenstock) (1896 - 1963)
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  • Buddha As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Buddha As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bob Dylan But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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