Carl Andre Quotes
What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I want to win football games.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.
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What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.
