Quentin Crisp Quotes

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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• It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
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• Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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• I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
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• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
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• When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

  

  Elif Safak

• The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

  

  Don Rickles
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• I think that driving is the least important issue. We as women have a lot more things to tackle before we get to the issue of driving, such as the opportunity to work in any field we choose.

  

  Lubna Olayan
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• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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