Quentin Crisp Quotes
Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
Quotes to Explore
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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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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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
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I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.
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Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
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Space is really domain expansion.
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For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.
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People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
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Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.
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I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.
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Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
I was 17, and it was my first summer in London as a professional singer. One hot, humid evening, I heard that the Jimi Hendrix Experience was playing in a blues club above a pub in Finsbury Park. I was flat broke and couldn't afford a ticket, so I went along just to stand outside and listen.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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I think it's an unbelievable responsibility to our sport, coaching in New York, because the fans are probably the most knowledgeable, or as knowledgeable as any team in the League.
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Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.
