Harold Rosenberg Quotes
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
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Part of being a healthy person is being well integrated and at peace.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
