Quentin Crisp Quotes
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
Quentin Crisp
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
Olivier Martinez
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Caitlin Moran
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
Samuel Lover
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
Jack McBrayer
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
Randi Weingarten
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
Jack Keane
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
Warren Farrell
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
Taylor Hicks
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
Nat Wolff
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I'm an emotional person.
Joanne Rowling
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
Carl Honore
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
Maeve Binchy
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There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
Elizabeth Marvel
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Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.
T. J. Miller
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Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
Floyd Skloot
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I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
Mark Ruffalo
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
Quentin Crisp
