Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
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Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
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I want to be great. I want to be the best.
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Victor Rasuk is a good friend of mine.
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Aye, it is hard when those we love leave the world. No denying it.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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This town is diverse as shit. I like it here a lot.
