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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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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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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We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
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Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
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Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.
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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.
