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

• 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

• Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.

  

  Don Wright

• This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Community
  • Professional

• Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Accepting

• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Thinking
  • Racism
  • Economic

• You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Good

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

  

  Harold Rosenberg