Anthony Kiedis Quotes

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Life
  • Country
  • Right

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Training

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Family
  • Love

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
  • Too

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Reality

• I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of cancer. I owed $20,000. That was about the lowest. I came back to show business, and I couldn't get a job. I was turned down by every small-time agent in New York.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Business
  • Job

• I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?

  

  Bette Midler
  • Why
  • Way
  • Years

• Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Flower
  • Bird

• Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Years
  • Realized
  • Good Friends