Claes Oldenburg Quotes
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
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When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.
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The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. 'You people with hearts,' he said, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.'
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Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
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In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.
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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
