James Rosenquist Quotes
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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If we get to a world of digital securities, then there isn't a need for DTC and Cede & Co. anymore. It's a really huge step in returning to clean capital markets.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
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If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson. I did, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
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I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.
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I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
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People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
