Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
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I don't teach. I don't think I could. I also don't really do anything else artistically, locally.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
