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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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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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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In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
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A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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I'm a girl who's curvy, and I'm Latvian, but I don't have hips, and I have a tiny waist.
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Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.
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I don't believe in sexual love.
