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 are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
