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" I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life. "

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" I've had many friends over the years who have been in same-sex relationships, and the family denies hospital visitations when one is sick. Or when the estate is settled and people who have built a life together has everything taken away from them either by the families or the taxman. "

David Furnish

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Family

Friends

" Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing. "

" I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out. "

" In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying. "

" I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand. "

" When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons. "

" The past is past; what's gone on has gone on. "

David Furnish

Past

Gone

" A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it. "

" I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at. "

" I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian. "

" I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life. "

" I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true. "

" When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises. "

" I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things. "

" It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity. "

" I was neeeever a cool kid. "

David Furnish

Cool

Kid

" When 1.2 million people come together for Pride in Toronto, that's great, but we now need to start paying it forward and thinking about the rest of the world. "

" I haven't done much art shopping in Vegas. It tends to be from galleries that are London- or L.A.- or New York-based. We've never had someone standing over our shoulder telling us something is a good investment. "

" You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success. "

" I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it together so it's natural and not contrived. That's real style. "

" People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it. "

David Furnish

People

Life

" We all live by example. "

David Furnish

Live

Example

" Everyone should be tested. Whenever they have a check-up, they should test for HIV, because if we can get to a point in our society where everyone is automatically tested, nobody will fall through the net. "

" I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff. "

" If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them. "

" Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film. "

" I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob. "

" One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognition of our relationship. "

" If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K. "