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.
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.
Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.
If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you β Nobody β too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise β you know! How dreary β to be β Somebody! How public β like a Frog β To tell one's name β the livelong June β To an admiring Bog!
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
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