I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.


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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is ...
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. -Ant...
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, vo...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul an...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and mak...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
ANTONIO PORCHIA
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. ....
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
ANTONIO BANDERAS
I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will ...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received
ANTONIO PORCHIA
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a pol...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir...
ANTONIO DAMASIO
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
I think anything you impose on players, the first reaction is going to be, 'Nah, I don't want to do ...
ANTONIO DAVIS
I don't think it's fair for them to tell you exactly how to dress. You can't say no jeans. I've seen...
ANTONIO DAVIS
I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything. I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't ...
ANTONIO DAVIS
The thing that I like so far is that guys care. Nobody's sitting and being complacent with what's go...
ANTONIO DAVIS
Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right...
ANTONIO DANIELS
We talked about staying loose. We were missing 30 points and nearly six assists. That's a big part o...
ANTONIO DANIELS
Some nights it's scoring, some nights it's not. Some nights it's defending. If everybody falls in an...
ANTONIO DANIELS
You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, ...
ANTONIO DANIELS