Carl Andre Quotes
I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Miami is one of the great cultural melting pots in the world. I love working and living here.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."
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In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.
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I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
