Quentin Crisp Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
Natalia Tena
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
Ed Weeks
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Calvin Trillin
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
Cara Delevingne
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
Mahesh Babu
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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
Auberon Herbert
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I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.
Rachel Morrison
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Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I
don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp
