Garrison Wynn Quotes
Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
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Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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I love college life.
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Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
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To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.
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My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
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Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
