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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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.
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There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
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Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
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Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
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I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.
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Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
