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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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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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
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Fuck Radio Ethiopia man, I'm Radio Brooklyn!
