"I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me"

--

Quentin Crisp

“I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.”
“The past is gone. I know it sounds clichÃ©, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.”
“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.”
“What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.”

Source : Referring to the Catholic Emancipation Act (1829), in H. Dunckley 'Lord Melbourne' (1890) ch. 9
“I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.”

Source : "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.
“By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.”
“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.”

Source : Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 06, 2007.

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