Jerry Saltz Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Brazil is on my side.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.
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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
