Allan Kaprow Quotes
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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I love life. I love life to death.
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I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.
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The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
