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 -
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Kate Mulgrew -
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton -
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 -
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 -
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
Mac Thornberry -
But I think we need the international market.
Zhang Yimou -
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith -
Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
Randeep Hooda -
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
Manal al-Sharif
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
Candace Kita -
George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
Kate Middleton
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All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?
Emperor Hirohito -
Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
Eleanor Clift -
I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing 'extra' work on films.
Austin Butler -
We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
Eden Hazard -
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
Nadeem Aslam -
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp