No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.
You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.
Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: What are you drinking, Bela? Bela Lugosi: Formaldehyde Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Straight up or on the rocks?
Manfred: [to Sid] Let's get something straight, okay? There's no "we". There never *was* a "we". In fact, without "me", there wouldn't even be a "you"!
[Rose shows Jack her engagement ring] Jack: God! Look at that thing! You would've gone straight to the bottom.
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!
I love or hate things straight away. I like to go directly to action to see the result. I think I must be difficult, but at the same time, it's not for me to say.
I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
