Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.
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The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.
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I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.
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Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.
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With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.
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But it can make you feel over, and old (Lord, you know it's a shame), when I only want for you to pull over, and hold me,till I can't remember my own name.
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Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap
