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I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. ”
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out. ”
Equality, equality, equality. I'm all about equality, that's the main thing and the only thing I'm about. ”
Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving. ”
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. ”
People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being. ”
To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible. ”
Immigration is a system and a set of policies. And immigrants are the people behind those policies and behind that system, and the human stories. ”
I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. ”
One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. ”