Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
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I personally believe that our planet would be absolutely fine without religion, and I also feel we are evolving in that direction.
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I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
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USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.
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The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
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Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
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I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.
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Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
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I don't believe in sexual love.
