Quentin Crisp Quotes
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
