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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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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.
