Carl Andre Quotes
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
Quotes to Explore
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
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The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.
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You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
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Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
