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" We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory. "

RuPaul

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" 'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there. "

" I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music. "

" All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity. "

" The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job. "

" I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative. "

" I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike. "

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" I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion. "

" I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag. "

" There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.' "

" I dance to the beat of a different drummer. "

" My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business. "

" Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously. "

" I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight. "

" It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag. "

" If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature. "

" I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion. "

" I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich. "

" I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day. "

" I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me. "

" I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people. "

" Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego. "

" I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet. "

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" We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s. "

" It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science. "

" The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you. "

" I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John. "

" I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer. "