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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
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.
Irvine Welsh -
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.
Vijender Singh -
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.
Walter Gropius -
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.
C. L. R. James
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Laura Dern -
Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
Bam Margera -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
Zoe Foster Blake
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco -
We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
Jackie Speier -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
Larry Brown -
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug
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Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.
Dalai Lama -
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
Elif Safak -
Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-culture figure like that. I go back to Chris Reeve as Superman as the gold standard, and I think Evans is right there.
Kevin Feige -
The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
Dan Inosanto -
We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
Marilyn Ferguson -
As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti