Quentin S. Crisp Quotes

I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.

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• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

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• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

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• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

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• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

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• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

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• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

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• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

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• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  

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• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  

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• I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

  

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  

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• I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

  

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• Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

  

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• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
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• People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.

  

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• I get up each and every day trying to do my level best to make Victoria a better place.

  

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• We started on the pole but by Lap 150 we were ninth or 10th and we were struggling. The car was sliding around a lot, but I did not get upset. I just said, 'Let's just keep working hard.' Last year, I would have been so upset about getting passed by those cars I would have been overly aggressive and would have worn our tires out. You can't do that in a 500-mile race if you want to be strong at the end.

  

  Kasey Kahne
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• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

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• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

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• The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Struggle