Jonathan Franzen Quotes

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

Jonathan Franzen

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I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.

Jimmy Scott

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Who wants to broadcast the news that he's bought a can of Sprite? And who wants to see that on a News Feed?

Steven Levy

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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Ronald Reagan

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When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

Roy Lichtenstein

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I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

RuPaul

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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

Mary Steenburgen

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Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

Chris Gardner

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I'm going to continue to be the same attacking style that I've always been. I'm not going to change it because of how other teams are treating me.

Christian Pulisic

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Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Bruce Springsteen

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With a Hyperloop One system in place, there is ability to further unify the alliance of the GCC, socially, culturally, and economically.

Shervin Pishevar

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Marilyn French

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It's very scary to become someone new, to take that path less followed.

Marjorie Liu

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