Claes Oldenburg Quotes
I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
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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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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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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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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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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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To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
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Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.
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I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.
