Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.
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Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger –- we were strangers once, too.
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There's no great loss without some small gain.
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If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
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The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense.
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But bowed his comely headDown as upon a bed.
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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When I arrived in New York, I was at the Drake hotel for five years; so, yeah, I really miss hotels. It's like having friends stay at your home. Every day you get to treat them, not only to dinner, but for breakfast, and everything throughout the day.
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I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.
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I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.
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Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
