Lou Reed Quotes
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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Baseball is just my job.
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My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.
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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
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Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.
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I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story.
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As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.
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I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
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My week beats your year.
