John Baldessari Quotes
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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I'm happy. I've had a great career. I adore my family. My closest friends from decades ago remain my closest friends.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
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I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
