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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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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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
