Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino -
As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
Kate Williams -
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
Rafael Palmeiro -
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo -
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
Randy Newman -
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
Mae Jemison -
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Eddie Redmayne -
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
Randy Houser -
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Walter Gropius -
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis -
I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
Eartha Kitt
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
Vince McMahon -
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel -
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack Obama -
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
Raf Simons -
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
Camille Paglia -
In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
Ban Ki-moon
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius -
I read good. I was an English major.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.
Kate Siegel -
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti