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.
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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'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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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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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I think I look great in pretty much everything... kidding! For the red carpet, I like to do really natural eyes and a nice sleek ponytail. Sometimes I'm into a really dark rouge, purple bold lip.
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I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
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Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
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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.
