Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
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This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
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But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
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The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
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Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
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the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
