Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
Rand Paul -
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
Magnus Scheving -
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina -
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
L'Wren Scott -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
Tavi Gevinson -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
Jack Germond -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
Fabrice Muamba
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
Harry Browne -
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R. A. Salvatore -
Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield -
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
Hamilton Jordan -
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
Zoe Kazan -
I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
Camila Alves
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I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
Lynda Barry -
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.
Jincy Willett -
Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
Louise Wilson -
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann Georg Hamann -
When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.
Kris Kristofferson -
People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.
Quentin S. Crisp