Curiosity is the lust of the mind. - Thomas Hobbes

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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

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What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

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The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you. " I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

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Roger Ebert

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley. . . Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

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Madonna Ciccone

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

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Audre Lorde

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

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Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

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