Carl Andre Quotes
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
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One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
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There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
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'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!'
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
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If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
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Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
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I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.
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All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.
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I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.
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In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
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I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
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The course of development
