Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
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I was an English major in college!
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins for companies, more purchasing power for workers.
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I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'
