Quentin Crisp Quotes
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising.
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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
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But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
