Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.
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And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
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Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.
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Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
