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.
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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.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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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.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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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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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.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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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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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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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.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
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I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
