I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaRead
Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that prejudice, like fashion, is something that can be chosen or rejected.
In this quote, Lady Gaga draws a parallel between prejudice and fashion, suggesting that both are societal constructs that can be adopted or rejected by individuals. She emphasizes her refusal to conform to prejudice, highlighting the importance of personal choice in the face of societal norms and values, and advocating for acceptance and individuality over bias.
In practice
During a speech on equality, I shared this quote to emphasize the need to reject societal biases.
I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.
Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. Whatβs the line? I donβt have a line.
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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