Andy Warhol Quotes
(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
Quotes to Explore
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
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I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front-end starter, that's the way I still think I can pitch. But the body tells you no.
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Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally or opponent, or William Clinton the father and the husband, ask only this: should William Clinton the president be removed from office? ... Are we at that horrific moment in our history when our union can be preserved only by taking the step that the framers saw as a last resort?
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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
