Quentin Crisp Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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You travel side by side through the life you share, and you come to think you know each other all too well. But if each of us enters the afterlife alone, and is asked to give an accounting, asked to speak of how one lived and what one lived for, then the accounting Daniel gave of his life might involve trials of which she knew nothing, sufferings of which he'd never spoken and that had left no outer mark.
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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
