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 get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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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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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
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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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I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
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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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I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.
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You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
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After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
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The course of development
