Barron Claiborne Quotes
Since it is visual art, you know, you’re drawing from everything. But I tend to draw from what I read not from a visual thing. Most of my stuff comes from historical things that I read that are kind of obscure and that people don’t know much about, like the formation of the Christian church, stuff like that.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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Ik sus mijn geweten nu maar met de gedachte, dat scheldwoorden beter op papier kunnen staan dan dat moeder ze moet meedragen in haar hart.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
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We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.
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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
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Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
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Since it is visual art, you know, you’re drawing from everything. But I tend to draw from what I read not from a visual thing. Most of my stuff comes from historical things that I read that are kind of obscure and that people don’t know much about, like the formation of the Christian church, stuff like that.
