Harold Rosenberg Quotes
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
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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.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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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.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.
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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.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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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.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
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I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
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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.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
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I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.
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In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
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I've never changed it, never really messed with it.
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In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
