Drag Quotes - Page 25

• It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Artist, Common Folk, Olympus

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• Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

  RuPaul

  Forever, Soul, Goes On

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• A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.

  Russell Brand

  Halloween, Ocean, Home

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• Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

  Henry Adams

  Teacher, Doubt, Mind

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1543, Open Road Media

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• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Swimming

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• I started doing drag in Seattle because I started doing my column before I moved here, and then moved here and wanted to be able to go out and do things as Dan Savage without being recognized the next day, because the column was just in Seattle and it was kind of a sensation and I was beating people up. I was really worried and I didn't want to beat somebody up in a column and have that person know what I look like when I didn't know what they looked like.

  Dan Savage

  Next Day, People, Savages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!

  Manila Luzon

  Beautiful, Queens, Fun

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

  Manila Luzon

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

  Carrie Fisher

  Regret, Mistake, Self

  "Carrie Fisher on how George Lucas stole her identity". www.newsweek.com. December 27, 2016.

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• I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!

  Manila Luzon

  Queens, Pigs, Gone

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Running into a pole is a drag, but never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster.

  Daniel Kish

  Running, Disaster

  "Batman Pt. 2". "Invisibilia" with Lulu Miller, www.npr.org. January 22, 2015.

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• Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Ironic, Want

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.

  Yevgeny Primakov

  Country, Adversity, Light

  "And in other news". www.sfgate.com. September 16, 1998.

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• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

  Jay Asher

  Fall, Ivy, Want

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Penguin

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• Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Queens, Thinking, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Doubt

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2008.

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• The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

  Shawn Colvin

  Education, Knows

  Song: Trouble, Album: A Few Small Repairs, 1996

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• At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

  Rose McGowan

  Girl, Queens, Taken

  "Rose McGowan On Childhood As Runaway With Drag Queens, Not Being Bi-Sexual". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.

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• My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

  Master P

  Cousin, Queens, Jail

  Song: Snitches

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• I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

  Randy Newman

  Jesus, Men, Half

  Song: Half a Man, Album: Born Again

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• Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

  Neil Young

  Philosophy, Down And, Possession

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• If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Girl, Queens, Gun

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• Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.

  Michel'le

  Reality, Past, Air

  Source: www.elle.com

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