Glenn Ligon Quotes

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

Glenn Ligon

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I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

Jimmy Fallon

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Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Robert J. Shiller

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There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that.

Matthew Heineman

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I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Jeff Bridges

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I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Alvin Lee

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I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Tony Goldwyn

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The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

Mary Pierce

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What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Luanne Rice

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When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

Don Gibson

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If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

Diana Rigg

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You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Denzel Washington

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You've just got to train hard. Conditioning is key, recovery is key. As hard as you work, recovery is just as important. All the soft-tissue work daily, all the things that keep me clean. And you've always got to be aware of what you're eating, what you're putting inside your body. That's key as well.

Antonio Brown

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