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Tom Wolfe Quotes

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1931

Topics

Art Romantic Game Long Anything

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

Jhonen Vasquez

Always Slave Being Something Idea

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Matthew Desmond

Nature Poverty Look Trauma Hard

My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

Steven Seagal

Love People Me Love Me Without Here

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Roy Lichtenstein

People Think You Know Kind Most

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.

Miguel Zenon

Music Food People Language You Look

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

Jason Molina

Cell Phone Phone Touch Write Bring

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Don Herold

Door You Back Go Want Might

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Christopher Hampton

Women Capitalism Process American

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

Cheryl Cole

Love Baby Thought Boy Names Little

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

Alicia Keys

Love People You Loving Stop Know

Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.

Tino Sehgal

Live Music Culture Dance Happy Want

The only person holding you back is you.

Normani Kordei

You Back Person Only Holding