Rene Ricard Quotes

I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.

Rene Ricard

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• Speculative

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• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Experience
  • Feeling
  • Decisions

• It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Long
  • May

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Lord
  • Pure

• If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Know
  • Down

• Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Night
  • Thanks

• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Insurance

• I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Love
  • Car

• When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Tree

• I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Work
  • Mad

• Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Life
  • Parents

• Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

  

  Jerry B. Jenkins

• I won 21 titles in seven years: three titles per year playing in this way. I'm sorry, guys. I'm not going to change.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Sorry

• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Case

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

  

  James Gleick
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Selfishness
  • Nationalism

• I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.

  

  Rene Ricard
  • History
  • Future
  • Valuable