Edward Ruscha Quotes

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

Edward Ruscha

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1937

Topics

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As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson

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Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

John Michael Hayes

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I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'

John Joseph Adams

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I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

Stephanie Mills

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We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

Steven Pinker

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If I don't have a meaning to what I am doing, I am not convinced to be a part of that activity.

Sidharth Malhotra

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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

Roger Ebert

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I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.

Mike Posner

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I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.

Lou Barlow

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No one nor anything can silence me.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

Brandon Routh

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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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