Quentin Crisp Quotes
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
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Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.
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When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
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No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
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Trump's behavior is deeply disturbing but hardly surprising. His mercurial nature is not the product of a post-inaugural adder sting at Mar-a-Lago. It's been there all along. And the American electorate chose him nonetheless.
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We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.
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That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
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For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
