Anthony Kiedis Quotes
To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I would like to direct.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...
