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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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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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 was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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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'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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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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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
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In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.
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I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.
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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
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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.
