Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.Quentin S. Crisp
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
Ice T -
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates -
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess -
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater -
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Gail Carson Levine -
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar -
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
Ed Royce -
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett -
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo -
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
Xavier Rudd -
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Imelda Marcos
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
Vicki Lawrence -
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor -
Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
Maggie Q
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No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.
James Mattis -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.
Gabriel Iglesias -
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.
Quentin S. Crisp