"To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade."

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“Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.”

“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”

“I would never want to film hard-core pornography, because it always looks like open-heart surgery to me.”

“pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.”

“Parents should worry if their children haven't been arrested by the time they turn sixteen. Being a juvenile delinquent is a birthright and as much a part of healthy adolescence as smoking cigarettes or getting pimples.”

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"I'm absolutely convinced that a riot merely intensifies the fears of the white community while relieving the guilt. And I feel that we must always work with an effective, powerful weapon and method th…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

#Human Nature

"Al-Qaeda means Bush and Blair. Who established Al-Qaeda? You are the ones who should be put on trial. You were the mother of Al-Qaeda."

— Ahmad Jannati

Politics1927

#family

"A bell was rung. All the passengers came on deck. Never shall I forget the scene we then witnessed. It was ten o'clock in the morning. The sky was overspread with thick dark clouds. It looked like a v…"

— Théodore Guérin

Religion1798–1856

#family

"If there is one thing more than another better established about the British Constitution it is this, that the Commons, and the Commons alone, have the complete control of supply and ways and means. A…"

— David Lloyd George

Politics1863–1945

#religion