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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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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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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Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
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One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.
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When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
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I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
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I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
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I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
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My week beats your year.
