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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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I don't really wear sarees and suits.
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When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.
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Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.
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In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
