Quentin Crisp Quotes
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.Quentin Crisp
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah -
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey -
I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling -
There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
Oscar Isaac -
It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
Barbara Corcoran -
I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
La'Porsha Renae -
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
Osman Baydemir -
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
Beck -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams -
I don't have many friends.
Larry David -
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
Cameron Diaz -
If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
Nancy Pelosi
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When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
Christine Lagarde -
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
Anurag Kashyap -
All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)
Warren Farrell -
If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.
Daryl Franklin Hohl -
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
Quentin Crisp