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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There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.
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The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
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The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your - your president thinks.
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People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
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I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
