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" I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff. "
David Furnish
Bad
Shame
Self-Image
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises. "
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" People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it. "
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" 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. "
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Family
Gay
" 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. "
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Legal
Relationship
Opportunity
" The past is past; what's gone on has gone on. "
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Past
Gone
" 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. "
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Great
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" Putin is lovely. "
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Putin
" 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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Marriage
Positive
Life
" I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was. "
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Think
London
Family
" It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism. "
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Interesting
Father
Single
" I was definitely teased and bullied in my junior school. "
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Bullied
Definitely
School
" My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had. "
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Wanted
Parents
Years
" 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. "
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Medical
Information
Power
" 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. "
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Dreams
Your Dreams
Work
" The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours. "
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She
Think
Woman
" I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand. "
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Think
Things
People
" 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. "
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Together
Trick
Love
" 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. "
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Canada
Gay
Marriage
" 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. "
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Path
People
Family
" When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek. "
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Love
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You
" A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it. "
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People
Good Art
Collecting
" 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. "
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Great
Good
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" I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life. "
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Board
Equality
" People don't ask me for my autograph. "
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Ask
People
Me
" We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model. "
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Mean
Role Model
Tennis
" Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia. "
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Ignorance
Fear
Fuel