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" Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is. "
Andrew Sullivan
Just
Weather
Homosexuality
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" The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. "
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" Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. "
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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. "
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" Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted. "
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Past
" I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet. "
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Best
" My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started. "
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My Own
Early
" In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. "
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" How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? "
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" There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it. "
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Humanity
President
" 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. "
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Friendship
Gay
" Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. "
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Internal
" I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago. "
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Yesterday
Alone
I Can
" 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. "
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Writing
Thinking
Someone
" I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. "
Andrew Sullivan
Purge
Things
Shedding
" When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.' "
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God
Hope
Me
" The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. "
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Gay
Successful
Romantic
" Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that. "
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Politics
" When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. "
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Popular
Minority
You
" The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics. "
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Good
Politics
Me
" When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. "
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Marriage
Me
Community
" The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting. "
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Obama
Relationship
Black
" If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers. "
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Gay
" I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. "
Andrew Sullivan
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Me
Being