Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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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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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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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
