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 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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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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Waiting the word of the Master, Watching the Hidden Light; Listening to his orders In the very midst of the fight; Seeing His slightest signal Across the heads of the throng; Hearing His faintest whisper Above earth's loudest song.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.
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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.
