Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Valerie Jarrett
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
Karin Slaughter
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
Rafael Nadal
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
Victoria Aveyard
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You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.
Carol Grace
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
Larry Elder
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I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
LeRoy Neiman
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Geronimo
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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
