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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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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Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.
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An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either.
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When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
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The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act is executable and, rather than dismissing criticism, should examine it in good faith and work to serve the needs of the people. President Obama must approach this problem like a CEO confronting a very bad product launch.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
