Lou Reed Quotes
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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Even if Donald Trump's successful, it's the beginning of the end if this rhetoric persists in the Republican Party.
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The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
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A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
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I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.
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And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.
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Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!
