Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.) Quotes
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
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If we discover through a thorough and unbiased investigation that Russia has indeed attacked our electoral process directly with the intent to influencing the process, our response needs to be robust, rapid, and proportional. This will shape our relationship with Russia profoundly.
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Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
