Carl Andre Quotes
If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.
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Just the way my voice sounds now, it's always had this little hoarse thing to it. And I'd have to do vocal exercises to make my voice clear.
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I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consistently. I would have tons of friends, and then I would have no friends. I'd be with the cool girls, then the uncool girls. I migrated from group to group because I was bored or people got bored with me. I was very intense.
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There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I'm in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
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I can't say anything, I can't make any comment other than to say a number of teams have expressed interest in a number of possibilities.
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.