Larry Flynt Quotes
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color. That is normal.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
