Quentin Crisp Quotes
If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
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If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.
