Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.
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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
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Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
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If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
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I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.
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The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.
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I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
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To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.
