Keith Haring Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers -
Poetry is meant to be heard.
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Nothing is important... so everything is important.
