Quentin Crisp Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I get bored easily.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I grew up in New York.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Books are really fun because your 'voice' is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
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I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
