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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
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• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• 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.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • You
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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.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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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.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Money
  • Mother
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• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  

  Ed Asner
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  • High
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• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
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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.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Distracted

• 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.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
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• In my beginning is my end.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Man
  • Desire

• Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Jobs
  • Found
  • Term

• Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. It's how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

  

  Alix Ohlin
  • Know
  • Pain
  • Witnessing

• I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains.

  

  Alexei Yagudin
  • Person
  • Mountains
  • Skate

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
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