Quentin Crisp Quotes
I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.
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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.
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I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.
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Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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It’s very important to be able to accept things, you know. Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most of never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.
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To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.
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I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.
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In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door and crept in and were prowling around, checking things out and taking back reports from the front.
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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
