Quentin Crisp Quotes
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.Quentin Crisp
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
Pamela Anderson -
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 -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
Zara Phillips -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker -
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby -
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
Kate Winslet -
The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
Adam Cohen -
I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
Dan Pink -
I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
Rachael Taylor -
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
William Shakespeare -
Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
Alfredo Jaar -
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett -
The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and health. Health is primarily that state in which these constituent substances are in the correct proportion to each other, both in strength and quantity, and are well mixed.
Hippocrates -
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp