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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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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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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You can hit a nail on the head, or cause a machine to do so, and get a fairly predictable result. Hit a dog on the head, and it will either dodge, bite back, or die, but it will never again react in the same way. We can predict only those things we set up to be predictable, not what we encounter in the real world of living and reactive processes.
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We can all put weight on or lose weight.
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The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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My week beats your year.
