John Baldessari Quotes
I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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What worries me is that conservative thought is moving quickly, but we're kind of the pachyderms in Congress because things move so slowly.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.
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Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
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Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.
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I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.
