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 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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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
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The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.
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We discovered at one point that the brick wall of the pillar would hold up a sock pretty well. This led to sorting socks by putting them on the wall, which in turn led to mosaics built entirely of socks. Mission drift is a hazard in all pursuits, including doing the laundry.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
