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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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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'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 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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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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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.
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From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
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Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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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.
