Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
Yahya Jammeh -
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.
Fidel Castro -
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard
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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.
Padmasree Warrior -
I didn't want to do something typical.
Beck -
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.
Oliver North -
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.
Kapil Sibal -
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
Ted Cruz -
Globalization is a fact of economic life.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
Warren Littlefield -
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye -
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!
Calvin Harris -
Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
Mahavira -
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Baz Luhrmann -
All critics should be assassinated.
Man Ray
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
Michael Caine -
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
Nathan Myhrvold -
God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
F. B. Meyer -
As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.
Hans Jonas -
The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality
Lawrence Ferlinghetti