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

• Every film deserves its own unique look.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Unique

• The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Nobility

• From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.

  

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Culture

• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Events

• Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Person
  • Asshole

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

  

  Harold Rosenberg