"Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it."

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Source : "Slowly Adapting Art: Moving with the Times" by Nika Knight, www2.oberlin.edu. April 27, 2007.

Lawrence Weiner

#Way Quotes #Climbs Quotes

“Why I wake up in the morning is that I'm still alive, and I want to figure out whatever I can before it's over.”
“I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.”
“He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.”
“The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.”
“I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.”

Source : "Aly Raisman, Olympic Gymnast, Gets An Adorable Prom Proposal" by Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.
“Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage
“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”
“I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.”

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