Quentin Crisp Quotes
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quotes to Explore
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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'Amazing Grace' is not a book of interviews or onetime snapshots. It's a memoir of a journey that took me into a place I had never been and took over two years of my life. I don't think the people in this book would have said the things to me that they did if they perceived me as a reporter.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
