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Lou Reed
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 2
Died: 2013
Died: October 27
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I can concentrate on my art.
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I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
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Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.
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When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.
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People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.
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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass.
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With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.
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My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
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As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
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I wanna hear some Diana Ross, I wanna hear some Marvin Gaye. I wanna hear a song that reminds me of a better day.
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.
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First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait
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All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.
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I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.
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The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
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You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.
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Honey, I'm a cocksucker, what are you?
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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
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I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.
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