Edward Ruscha Quotes
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
