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 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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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
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Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.
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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
