Carl Andre Quotes

If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

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• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Career
  • Brain

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Style
  • Teacher
  • Destroy

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Long
  • Family

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Control
  • Single

• If you give a party, you better give it right.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • You
  • Party
  • Better

• Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Business
  • Best
  • Boxing

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Think
  • Purpose

• The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Think
  • Game
  • Want

• If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Crazy

• Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Culture
  • You
  • Chinese

• I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.

  

  Wendell Berry

• Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Good
  • Music

• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  

  Chris Weitz
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Movie

• The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

  

  Christian McBride
  • New York
  • Played
  • Bands

• I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Stand

• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • World
  • Trying
  • School

• If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Carl Andre
  • Vermeer