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James Rosenquist Quotes

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

James Rosenquist

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017

Topics

Content Out Paint Started Wanted

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

Jennifer Nettles

Music Night Honor You Outside Fans

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Down Will Cap Welfare Bring Social

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Meet Air Force Air Force Away Get

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Work Good New York Me Book Language

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

Life Live God Memories Myself Think

Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.

Play Lead By Example Outside Active

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

Fear Confidence Fly Learn Strategy

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?

Pet Purpose People Me Random Doing

I'm a fan of 'Family Guy,' and I like watching the show.

Family Watching Guy Show Like Fan

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

Business Creative I Am Husband End

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

I Can Go Movies Lifestyle Where

Great work, professional relationships, and learning experiences compound over time, much the way money does - investing $100 today creates much more value than investing $100 a decade from now.

Work Learning Today Great Time Way

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