Quentin Crisp Quotes
I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
Utada Hikaru
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Nancy Reagan
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
Sai Baba
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Caitlin Doughty
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
Zosia Mamet
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
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Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides the evidence in his book Secret Weapon. Every American needs to understand how our financial markets have been manipulated by people who want to destroy the nation and how they can do even greater damage in the future. This book is a critical read for everyone.
William G. Boykin
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Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
Kathleen Robertson
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Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'
John Hickenlooper
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
Quentin Crisp