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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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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
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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.

  

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

  

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• Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

  

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• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

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• The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
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• This feels particularly good. It reaffirms the confidence I have in people.

  

  Craig Newmark
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• The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

  

  E. B. White
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• 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