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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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
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No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.
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I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.
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Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They can mess up every day of the week through their whole careers, and this would be just fine, as long as they messed up in the same way as their peers.
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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.
