Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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My health is fine.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
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There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.
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I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
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I'm more a dog person than a cat person.
