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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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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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
