James Rosenquist Quotes
Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Tonight this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.
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Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
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I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
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Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.
