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"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

"During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered."

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."

"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."

"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest."

 

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