Lou Reed Quotes
LR: 'Are you political, Lou? Audience: 'Yeah, are you?' LR:'Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it.'Lou Reed
Quotes to Explore
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot -
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
Malcolm Wilson -
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Magic Johnson -
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale -
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
Kate Mara
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He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.
Martina Hingis -
I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.
Phoebe Tonkin -
We have, here in California, among the most ambitious climate goals in the country. It's not just our political leaders or our regulators that really wants these things.
Geisha Williams -
There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.
Aubrey Plaza -
And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?
P. J. O'Rourke -
LR: 'Are you political, Lou? Audience: 'Yeah, are you?' LR:'Political about what? You give me an issue, I'll give you a tissue and you can wipe my ass with it.'
Lou Reed