I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
Armistead Maupin

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Penelope Lively

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.
Seth Green

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.
Sonia Sotomayor

I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
Stephen Sondheim

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Jean Houston

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.
Harold Ford

I firmly believe that music is a thrill, not a frill.
Sheri Lewis

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Dorothy Day

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.
Rob Bishop

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
Frank Murkowski

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
John Philip Sousa

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
R. Lee Ermey

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. Harvey

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
John Burns