Quentin Crisp Quotes
Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
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I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.
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I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.
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It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.
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When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.
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To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don't mind at all. I think it's very nice.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
