Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I.
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There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
