Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
