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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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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Red carpets are awful. They're like a kind of purgatory - you stand there, and there are cameras flashing everywhere. One of my first red carpets was in Cannes for 'The Great Gatsby,' and I'd never seen anything like it.
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I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
