Lou Reed Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.
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We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.
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Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.
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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
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Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
