Carl Andre Quotes
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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We've just been nostalgic about old-school hip hop, listening to it at home and looking at people like Slick Rick and all those guys who used to wear huge jewellery.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
Ford Frick
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I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.
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I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
