Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
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I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
