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Andrei Codrescu Quotes

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

Andrei Codrescu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: December 20, 1946

Topics

Birthday Friend Party Lucky Kid Get

I know I've got the right friends because they understand when they haven't seen me for three months and then when I do see them, it's exactly as it was before.

Me Friends Know Three Understand

I never second-guess myself.

Myself Never Second-Guess

In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

Russell Westbrook

Time Day Dress College Every Day Up

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

Perspective Me Law You Choice Seems

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Christian Slater

Doing Critic Eyebrows Cut Move Off

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Work Myself Feel Enough Point Where

I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.

Claudio Ranieri

Strength Man Balance Win Think Lose

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Time Child Adult Give Only Thing

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

Believe Think End You Sometimes Own

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Great Intelligence Thought Attention

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Balance Medicine Tower Modern Off

Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.

Work Great Small Chance Problem Tax

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