Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
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So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.
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I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.
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A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
