Quentin Crisp Quotes
I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'
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'Our duty, Richard, is to be decorative and stay alive long enough to be promoted. But no one expects us to be useful! Good God! A junior officer being useful? That'll be the day.'
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
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Ron Howard is a great filmmaker and also a great storyteller in 60- and 30-minute shows, so why isn't he going to be a great storyteller in 10-minute pieces?
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I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
