John Baldessari Quotes

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

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• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Me
  • Fame
  • Deal

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Vaalu

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Father
  • My Life

• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Religion
  • Italian
  • Renaissance

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Career
  • Best

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Government
  • Opportunities

• Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Strong
  • Commitment
  • Florida

• I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Time
  • Family
  • Job

• I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Born
  • Talent
  • Songwriting

• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Good Fortune

• I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Passion
  • Period

• If I have to go somewhere else, a lot of things are going to have to be changed or you're going to have an unhappy player, If I'm not happy, you don't want me on your team. It's that simple. I'll make that known to anybody.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Simple

• Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

  

  John Baldessari
  • Simple