Allen Ginsberg Quotes
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
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When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
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I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.
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Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
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Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
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McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.
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Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
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That is the situation in the factory where I work. The union has never gone in and the workers are nothing but poor victims of blackmail, dependent on the law of the owner, that is: I pay you and so I possess you and I possess your life, your family, and everything that surrounds you, and if you don’t do as I say I’ll ruin you.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
