James Rosenquist Quotes
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
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You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
