LeRoy Neiman Quotes
You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.
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Always Great to play with Larry Campbell and Ge smith !! Lots of Twang!! Old Tele’s and Old fender amps!
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You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
