Quentin Crisp Quotes
It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
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I live and die by puns.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
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The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.
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The irony that always amazes me when I see people up in arms about our war against Islamo-fascism is how they don’t understand that the social freedoms they take for granted will be the first casualties of Islamic influence and control. The only social liberal thinkers in the Muslim Arab Islamo-fascist world are dead ones. Women’s freedoms and their protection under the law, freedom of speech, separation of church and state, and other human rights will be the first to suffer. Oh yes, sorry, I forgot. . . there will always be the ACLU to depend on to keep the radical Muslims from taking these rights away. How foolish of me. Almost lost my head there.
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It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.
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In 1996, a Republican governor in South Carolina tried to take the flag down. He was voted out.
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In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.
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It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.
