Quentin Crisp Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia -
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey -
The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
Jack Black -
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
Kari Matchett
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
Jack Lowden -
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
Val Kilmer -
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Damon Runyon -
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick Geddes -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
Irvin D. Yalom -
Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
Dan Jenkins -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen -
The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Ted Turner -
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
Jack Bowman
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
Garth Ennis -
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge -
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark -
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt -
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp