Andy Warhol Quotes

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Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

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I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

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I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.

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I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things...

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I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

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I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

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My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

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The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

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I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

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If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

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When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

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I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

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That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

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I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

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The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

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The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

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People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

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When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

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The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

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I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

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What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

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I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

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I don't know anybody who doesn't have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

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The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

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I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

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You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

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Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

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