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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.


Jerry Saltz

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JERRY GILLIES Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
JERRY BROWN By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything ...
JERRY RUBIN It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenho...
JERRY ADLER Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobe...
JERRY BRIDGES I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
JERRY SEINFIELD The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
JERRY RUBIN Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
JERRY BROWN According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death i...
JERRY SEINFELD It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits th...
JERRY SEINFELD Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
JERRY SEINFELD Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating charac...
JERRY STAHL AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th...
JERRY FALWELL We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
JERRY MORAN I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alic...
JERRY CANTRELL 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
JERRY ORBACH Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about suc...
JERRY CANTRELL Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
JERRY LEWIS I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the inco...
JERRY FALWELL It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fit...
JERRY SEINFELD Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Aus...
JERRY LAWLER They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-tick...
JERRY REINSDORF