James Rosenquist Quotes
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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There's no experience like on-the-job training.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.
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Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding. Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightest feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat.
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I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'
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One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.
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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
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Of course advertising creates wants. Of course it makes people discontented, dissatisfied. Satisfaction with things as they are would defeat the American Dream.
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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
