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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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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I'm like Elaine Stritch everywhere.
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Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
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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.
