Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Quotes
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.
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As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.
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The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
