Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I love to write.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.
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If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.
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If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
