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.
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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.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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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.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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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.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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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.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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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.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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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.
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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.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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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.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
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Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.
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I have a really simple wardrobe. I wear a low-scoop tee every day with a tux or leather jacket and tux pants or black jeans. That's pretty much it.
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This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think.
