Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
Jack Nicklaus -
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland -
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
Lamar Alexander -
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne -
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman -
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
Canelo Alvarez -
I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
Ian Watson -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
Olivia Newton-John
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
Cameron Dallas -
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi -
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
Taylor Lautner -
No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Damian Lewis -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
Wendell Willkie -
Professional Southerners sicken me.
Barry Hannah -
I went to sleep dreaming of Malawi, and all the things made possible when your dreams are powered by your heart.
William Kamkwamba -
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt -
The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
Quentin S. Crisp