Harold Rosenberg Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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I watch a lot of football.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
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My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.
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I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
