Claes Oldenburg Quotes
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.Claes Oldenburg
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.
Gary Zukav -
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. Joshi -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Katha Pollitt
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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.
Orison Swett Marden -
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
Maisie Williams -
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. Simpson -
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
Eddie Murphy -
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.
Adam Ferrara -
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Hans Haacke -
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.
Saint Augustine -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
Salma Hayek -
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.
D. J. Cotrona -
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.
Natalie Gulbis
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
Harland Williams -
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think, are arguably as important as the lead vocals.
David Nail -
I am uncomfortable with Sarah Palin. I have nothing against her. I'll say she's a very talented woman. Yet I think she owes John McCain her gratitude and loyalty.
Ana Navarro -
I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.
Joel Grey -
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
Ustad Bismillah Khan -
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
Claes Oldenburg