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... the usual hired guns who made up the expert witness circuit and would say basically what they were paid to say.
Rag and Bone (2001)
It is a sorry fact that prejudice against gays, and the violence it engenders with increasing frequency, are not yet treated by the media with the same clarity that racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, or discrimination against the disabled are.
Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994)
[Larry Ross] "There are only two stages to dying, Henry. Being alive and being dead."
Goldenboy (1988)
[Chuck Sweeny] "Times change, we change with 'em."
The Hidden Law (1992)
[Miguel Sarmiento] "The principle of all existence is cause and effect. Scientific knowledge illuminates causes so that men are not condemned to go on living ignorantly in effects."
The City of Palaces (2014)
All I knew about his life was that he had had the kind of childhood that turns people into psychological time bombs. How would I react when he started to go off? Did I have my own time bomb ticking away in me?
Rag and Bone (2001)
While his father had railed against the church, to Sarmiento, the Christian sky-king, the virgin impregnated by the air, and the man who came back from the dead were stories so manifestly absurd they did not merit much more than a raised eyebrow and a shrug at human credulity.
The City of Palaces (2014)
[Henry] "...when you start running from yourself, you end up in some pretty dark places."
The Burning Plain (1997)
[Inez] "...If you consort with lowlifes you've got to expect complications."
The Burning Plain (1997)
[Henry] Life is a kind of exile and we all long to go home. Who said that?
The Burning Plain (1997)
[Henry Rios] "We never know anyone as well as we think we do."
The Death of Friends (1996)
[Dr Hayward, to Henry, after his heart attack] "Sex is not going to kill you — well, let me amend that. Safe sex is not going to kill you."
Rag and Bone (2001)
[Irene Gentry] "We all love according to our natures."
Goldenboy (1988)
[Gus Peña] "It's time for me to take care of me."
The Hidden Law (1992)
[Detective McBeth] "Being out of the closet is a luxury that many gay people can't afford. Maybe you can't understand that, but it's something I think about."
The Death of Friends (1996)
[John, about children] "Mostly, you have to listen and try to hear what they're really telling you and remember that, half the time, they don't know themselves."
Rag and Bone (2001)
[Henry Rios] It has never taken much for me to dislike a cop. My automatic assumption that most of them are assholes is seldom disappointed.
How Town (1990)
The room took shape in all its squalor: clothes scattered everywhere; plates of half-finished meals; the long table used as a desk, every inch of its surface covered by moldering documents, books, and sheaves of paper bestrewn with his father's tiny script.
The City of Palaces (2014)
[Alicia Gavilán, to Miguel] "We are all birds in cages, but some of us find reason to sing."
The City of Palaces (2014)
[Her elderly mother, to Alicia] "Except in the novels of the Brontës, marriage is a barter. You make the best bargain you can before I die."
The City of Palaces (2014)