Claes Oldenburg Quotes

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Claes Oldenburg

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PeopleThinkPersonalHonestBeing

Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.

Jenny Zhang

FamilyLonelinessJoyHappyParents

If you can't stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It's a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.

Megan Nicole

LoveGoodWalkTalentPeopleYou

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Shoshana Zuboff

PracticeChoicesActivitiesSeem

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Roger Zelazny

LoveAgeOld AgeElephantDieSaid

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Dick Ebersol

LifeSonMeLostLettersFirst

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

Chelan Simmons

MoneyFunParentsMeMakeupThought

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.

Christie Brinkley

LifeLife Is Too ShortShortToo

I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty - they have to be moist and sugary.

Cole Sprouse

LoveCakesI LoveSpecialtyBake

Where most politicians would have abandoned a supporter like Jeremiah Wright and the community he served, Obama, while strongly criticizing him, did not throw his friend overboard.

Bob Beckel

FriendCommunityHimPoliticians

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Anthony Holden

SuccessTimeMoneyWordsWedding

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

AgeTravelDeathMeasureNowLiving

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Richard P. Feynman

BeautyMyselfWorldLearnEmotion

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