Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
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When you make a great record, it's around forever.
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Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good...
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.