Quote by Quentin Crisp
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. – Quentin Crisp

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This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp

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Places
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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Intelligence
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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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Neighbors
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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. – Leo Burnett

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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. – Beau Bridges

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respect

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? Ive always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs. – Justin Townes Earle

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respect

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. – Julius Erving

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I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it. – Harvey Weinstein

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When you write biographies, whether its about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. – Walter Isaacson

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