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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I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
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Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
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When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
