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.Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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.
Bear Grylls -
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White -
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly -
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.
Walter Kirn -
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.
Ed Westwick -
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.
Ted Strickland
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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.
Talcott Parsons -
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.
Nancy Pearcey -
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
Karlie Kloss -
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.
Barbara Cook -
No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
Malaika Arora Khan
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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.
Oscar Robertson -
Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
Ted Ligety -
If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
D. A. Pennebaker -
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?
Adam Carolla
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You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
James Altucher -
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Andrew Greeley -
My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'
Joel Kinnaman -
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
Honore de Balzac -
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti