Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

Jasmine Guy

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Brian Eno

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

Boy George

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

Bruce Vilanch

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

Kathy Collins

Any time a person intentionally strikes a law enforcement officer we take it very seriously. It's a felony. It's a very brazen act. It's not tolerated.

Roger Butler

Back then it was part of life. Today, they want to make another law.

Sam Gerdano

People think the (bankruptcy) law is going to be repealed on Oct. 17. It's not.

Terry Palmisano

People seem to think we say to kill it, that that's our first recommendation. But it's not....We always look for another way. But in the end, the law does say we can kill the animal.

Antonin Scalia

Antitrust law is not there to protect the merchant, but to protect the consumer,

Don Roberts

The self-employed person can't just go to the end of the year and say here's how much I owe. You are required by law to make payments during the year.

Velimir Ilic

No way are we going to settle for a run-off, and that is now the law for everyone in this country.

Mike Graves

Sometimes that's the only law you can find.

Goldwin Smith

Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Janet Jackson

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Sam Kinison

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

Stephen Baldwin

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

Victoria Justice

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

Steven Morrissey

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Sumner Redstone

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Nina Blackwood

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

Bill Griffith

MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.