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.

  

  Imran Amed
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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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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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.

  

  Karan Johar
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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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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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.

  

  Sam Abell
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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.

  

  Randy Travis
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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.

  

  Kate Mara
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• I never think people are too careful with me.

  

  Joan Didion
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• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  

  Steve Jobs
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• The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

  

  Kent Nerburn
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• I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.

  

  Taika Waititi
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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