Quentin Crisp Quotes

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

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• I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

  

  Damon Galgut
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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
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• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
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• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
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• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
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  • Done

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
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• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• A psychiatrist today has the power to (1) take a fancy to a woman (2) lead her to take wild treatment as a joke (3) drug and shock her to temporary insanity (4) incarnate [

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Power
  • Today
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• The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Truth
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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
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• A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.

  

  Amanda Palmer
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• The best time to go to Las Vegas is during Christmastime, because there's no drug you can take that will recreate the experience of watching people gamble while they play Christmas carols. I'm Jewish, and I'm astonished. People going, 'GODDAMMIT!' 'JESUS CHRIST!' 'HOLY FUCK!' '...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, me and my drum.'

  

  Lewis Black
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• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Up
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• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  

  Jim Cooper
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• Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Opportunity
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• I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Drug

• Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Opinion

• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Color

• 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Letter

• The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Weather

• Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.

  

  Andrew P. Harris
  • Small
  • Control
  • Stop

• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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