Harold Rosenberg Quotes
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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No one person is an island.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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People learn to lead because they care about something.
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In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
