Quentin Crisp Quotes
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Quentin Crisp
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
Eddie Charles Jones
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
Nancy Gibbs
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
Walter Payton
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Maajid Nawaz
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
Ed Helms
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
Tamsin Egerton
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni
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I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
Bobby McFerrin
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It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
Tyrese Gibson
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There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty and felt that nobody could know I was gay, I was having sex with strangers in public parks. I don't think it was evil exactly, but it wasn't so great either. There was nobody particularly benefiting from it, except, I suppose, to the extent that it gave some pleasure to me and perhaps whomever I was with.
Andrew Solomon
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Oscar Wilde
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Quentin Crisp
