I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

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I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

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Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

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I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

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I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

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A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

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The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.

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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

Idris Elba

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Ida B. Wells

Idris Elba

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Idris Elba

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Ida B. Wells

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Idris Elba

Ida B. Wells

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Ida B. Wells

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Iggy Pop

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

Ida B. Wells

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Ida B. Wells

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

Iggy Pop

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

Iggy Pop

I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

Iggy Azalea

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

Iggy Pop

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

Iggy Pop

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

Iggy Azalea

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Iggy Pop

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

Iggy Azalea

Iggy Pop

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

Iggy Azalea

Iggy Pop

I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

Iggy Azalea

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

Iggy Pop

Iggy Azalea

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Iggy Azalea

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Iggy Pop

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Iggy Pop

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don't feel great about, and it'll make you feel so bad it'll destroy you and kill you.

Iggy Pop

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Iggy Pop

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

Iggy Pop

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

Iggy Pop

'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

Iggy Pop

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Iggy Pop

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Iggy Pop

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Iggy Pop

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Iggy Azalea

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.