Andy Warhol Quotes
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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No man may make another free.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
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I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
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I guess both Nabokov and Popper had, in different ways, immunized me against the fashion for French-influenced literary theory in the '70s, '80s, and '90s - "immunized" in the sense that they made me no longer susceptible to this epidemic cultural virus. I looked into Derrida and found that he rarely seemed to be interested in truth; he was more interested in making a splash.
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My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
