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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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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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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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'
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Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
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I have friends who come to the Australia Zoo, and it's just, instead of playing video games, we get to hug and kiss a giraffe or walk a tiger.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
