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" We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are. "
David Furnish
Forward
Who
People
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" 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
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" 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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" A good art collection is emblematic of the people collecting it. "
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People
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Collecting
" I'm a great pop culture lover, and I'm not a snob. "
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Pop
Snob
Great
" 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 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
" 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. "
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Life
Family
Friends
" I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life. "
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I Am
Board
Equality
" I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian. "
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Always
Ask
Being
" I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand. "
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Think
Things
People
" I studied really, really hard, rather boringly. "
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Studied
Hard
Rather
" 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. "
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Children
Parents
Blue
" Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division. "
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Judgment
Out
Ignorance
" I was neeeever a cool kid. "
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Cool
Kid
" 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
" 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. "
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Chance
People
Stand
" I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing. "
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Great
Live
You
" 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
" My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had. "
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Wanted
Parents
Years
" 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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Important
You
Relationship
" We all live by example. "
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Live
Example
" Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones. "
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Future
Loved
Important
" I like Madonna's music but not her movies. She should stick to what she is good at. "
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Movies
Good
Music
" 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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Friends
Family
Gay
" 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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Together
Great
People
" The past is past; what's gone on has gone on. "
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Past
Gone
" Putin is lovely. "
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Lovely
Putin
" I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art. "
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Sculpture
Art
Great
" 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