Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in.
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When I was a boy I was my father.
