Rashid Johnson Quotes
I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
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I do get around. Geographically, that is.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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The world is full of ways and means to waste time.
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The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
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I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.