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 dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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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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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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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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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
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The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.
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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
