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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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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I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.
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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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I used to go on chat rooms on AOL, back when those things existed, and argue with believers in evolution and argued with them that it was against God's law to believe in evolution. It was something I believed really personally.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
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Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
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Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
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Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.
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Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this...
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I don't believe in sexual love.
