Kehinde Wiley Quotes
It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.Kehinde Wiley
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
Dan Buettner -
Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
Vincent Cassel -
I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
Kate Mara -
I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama -
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
Barbra Streisand
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
Yara Shahidi -
I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
Natasha Bedingfield -
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg -
I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
Olivier Theyskens -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
Dan Pink -
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
Kate Morton -
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine -
It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
Victoria Osteen -
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
Wayne Coyne -
I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.
Venus Williams
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude -
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.
Jane Goodall -
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
James Russell Lowell -
Conversion is a daily thing.
Jim Caviezel -
It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.
Kehinde Wiley