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.
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
Know that you are a miracle and that you have a unique place in the cosmic plan. You are here to be the presence of love. You are here to be the presence of joy. You are here to be the presence of peace.
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
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