Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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I have multiple tattoos.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that. I was just a kid from Brooklyn. But what I learnt is the why, the how. The work ethic.
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I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
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[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.
