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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
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To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
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I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.
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It is not an opinion that enhanced interrogation techniques are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
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I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
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You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.
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The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
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[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
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I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
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I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with however many people in how many ways, to be loved and to love is what human beings really want.
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
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