Lou Reed Quotes
LR: 'Are you political, Lou? Audience: 'Yeah, are you?' LR:'Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it.'Lou Reed
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot -
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson -
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Magic Johnson -
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale -
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara
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As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
Denis Kearney -
Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou -
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
D. B. Weiss -
LR: 'Are you political, Lou? Audience: 'Yeah, are you?' LR:'Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it.'
Lou Reed