Quentin Crisp Quotes
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
Padmasree Warrior
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
Fabrizio Moreira
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
Wanda Sykes
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
Ingmar Bergman
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua
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I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.
Sam Graves
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
Karen Thompson Walker
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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.
Adam Dell
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
Barton Gellman
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I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
Warwick Davis
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
John C. Maxwell
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Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.
Dalai Lama
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I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.
Kelli Giddish
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You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Walker Evans
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I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
Caroline Myss
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Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Quentin Crisp