Quentin Crisp Quotes
When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
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There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
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When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
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My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
