Quentin Crisp Quotes
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.Quentin Crisp
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
Majandra Delfino -
Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
Daisaku Ikeda -
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Saint Ignatius -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
Fedor Emelianenko
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
Rani Mukerji -
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Quincy Jones -
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Patricia Polacco -
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
Earl Butz -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan -
In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii -
I love researching, I love interviewing.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
Sam Altman -
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu -
We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
Nate Ruess Fun.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
Barry Diller -
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True -
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
Lorna Luft -
Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it's important that we're continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.
Peggy Whitson -
Put me somewhere, tell me what to do, and I can get it done.
Cynthia Erivo -
I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.
Quentin Crisp