Quentin Crisp Quotes
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.
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When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.
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After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
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To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.
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As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.
