Quentin S. Crisp Quotes

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

Quentin S. Crisp

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• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

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• All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
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• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
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  • Financial

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
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• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
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  • Students
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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
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• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
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• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• If he had learned one thing as a Soldier it was that any decision, even a bad one, was better than none.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Bad
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  • Soldier

• We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Life
  • Day
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• Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.

  

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• The unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers.

  

  Neil Shubin
  • Questions
  • Source
  • Superstition

• The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

  

  Mike Watt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

• I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Sun
  • Cold