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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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 being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.
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Architecture is an expression of values.
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I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
