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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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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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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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
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Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and having so many elements involved in production adds to the amount of waste. You might have some things coming from Italy, a button coming from China, or lining coming from Korea; it's just endless.
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When I was a boy I was my father.
