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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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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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode.
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Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.
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It's a fact. So why aren't we pumping our fists in the air and cheering about it? Well probably because when we admit we can do something about it, we've got to do something about it. For the first time in history we have the know how, we have the cash, we have the lifesaving drugs, but do we have the will?
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
