Quentin Crisp Quotes
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.Quentin Crisp
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
Vanessa Paradis -
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
Abby Wambach -
It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove -
'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling -
Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
Madeline Zima -
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead -
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Jack Ma -
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
Maisie Williams -
L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
Raf Simons -
Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
Walter Kirn -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
Zooey Deschanel
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
Brownie McGhee -
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
Mitch Daniels -
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.
Barack Obama -
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
Blake Morrison -
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
Quentin Crisp