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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One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
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They [people] mistake fashion for style.
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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
