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.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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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.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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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.
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
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When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
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I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
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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.
