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Iggy Pop Quotes

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1947

Topics

Burden Actor Combine Tend Author

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

Spring Think Survival Experiment

There's a bit of me that always feels like, 'What's next? How can I get better?'

John David Washington

Me Better Always Next Get Like

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wish Literature You Mean Write Him

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Robert M. Gates

Criticism Say Nothing Little Avoid

I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

Literature Year Fall Become Study

I love the women I've played.

Love Women Played I Love

Winning in Oakland in '89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that '88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.

Great Team Winning Mission Look Awe

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

Music Guitar Enjoy Easy You Find

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

Best Government Democracy Problem

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

History People Me World America Why

Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it's something that just occurs to them. And then, there's the example of really chipping away at something to create something great. I don't believe that one is more reliable than the other.

Great Believe Someone Create Three

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

Fun Entertainment Out Making Many

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