Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
Naomi Klein
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
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Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
L. Frank Baum
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Exobiology - a curious development in view of the fact that this 'science' has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists!
George Gaylord Simpson
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My country tears of thee.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti