Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Very
  • Directions

• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.

  

  Candace Kita
  • May
  • Political
  • Support

• I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

  

  Sam Worthington
  • You
  • More
  • Alpha

• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Year

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Black

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Day
  • Focus

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Mean
  • Like
  • Go

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • You
  • Like
  • Google

• The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment.

  

  Ayya Khema
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Contentment

• When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Mom
  • Scary
  • Made

• I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.

  

  Carolyn Cooke
  • Life
  • Challenges
  • Overcome

• Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Democracy
  • Capitalism
  • Mechanism

• Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Government
  • Bird
  • Capitalism