Claes Oldenburg Quotes
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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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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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
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What unites Bolivia with Venezuela is the concept of the integration of South America. This is the old dream of a great fatherland, a dream that existed even before the Spanish conquest, and Simon Bolivar fought for it later on.
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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.
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Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.
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When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
