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 love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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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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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
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For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.
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One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.
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It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
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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.
