Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
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This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
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It is a sin to do less than your best.
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To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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