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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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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The danger of Americans being killed, the danger of divisiveness that would accrue from those developments ... are all too real. A superpower should not play that kind of role in a cauldron of trouble, because sooner or later we are going to get hurt.
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Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
