Andy Warhol Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct.
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And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.