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" I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? "

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" 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. "

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" I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. "

" Checks aren't money. "

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" Art? That's a man's name. "

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

" I think everybody should like everybody. "

" My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. "

" Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. "

" I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. "

" Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? "

" If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. "

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" I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. "

" An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. "

" The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. "

" My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. "

" People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. "

" I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about. "

" I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.' "

" If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye. "

" I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. "

" I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. "

" Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. "

" I want to be a machine. "

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" I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? "

" Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. "

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

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

" I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is. "

" I want to die with my blue jeans on. "

" When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. "