John Baldessari Quotes
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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I want to spend more time with my family.
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If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.
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My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.
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When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
