Quentin Crisp Quotes
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
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If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.
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All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.
