Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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People who have grit – they hate doing hard work. They hate it as much as we do. But, the thing is, they find a way to do it.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.
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Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to show up and embody the anger you feel, to embody the righteous outrage you feel, to embody the concern you feel. This is about putting feet to pavement and to register in the consciousness of America that this is something that's problematic.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
