Harold Rosenberg Quotes

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Harold Rosenberg

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• There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Trust
  • Care

• My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Religion
  • Mental Illness

• I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Everything
  • Give

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Want
  • Know
  • Just

• When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Eyes
  • Fire
  • Soldiers

• She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

  

  W. L. George
  • She
  • Man
  • Educated

• If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Need
  • Euthanasia

• You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Power
  • Game
  • Team

• The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • House
  • President

• I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Right
  • Working

• I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Loved
  • Gentle
  • Naughty

• It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Down
  • Looking
  • Restaurant

• There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Respect

• At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Sad

• I never watch my own films.

  

  Bill Nighy

• I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

  

  Joe Mantello
  • People

• The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

  

  Moliere
  • People
  • Today
  • Ancients

• In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

  

  Harold Rosenberg