Kehinde Wiley Quotes

Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.

Kehinde Wiley

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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Words
  • Me
  • Inspired

• 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.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Family
  • Planning
  • Planned

• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Broken
  • Cause
  • Themselves

• 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.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• I spend a lot of time with my characters.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Lot
  • Spend

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Money
  • Body
  • Start

• I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Mother
  • Impact
  • Mentors

• In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Country
  • Movie
  • First

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Scripture

• There's no great loss without some small gain.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Great
  • Small

• If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

  

  Leymah Gbowee
  • Society

• The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow

• But bowed his comely headDown as upon a bed.

  

  Andrew Marvell

• 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.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• 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.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Breakfast

• I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

  

  David Lynch The Platters

• If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

  

  David Hood
  • Response
  • Century
  • Between

• Then I felt as if my thoughts were cut off in the middle, absorbing and yet defective, with an urgent need for verification, for development, yet without conviction, without faith in themselves.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Faith
  • Thoughts
  • Development

• Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

  

  Logan Lerman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I love music so much; I've always played.

  

  Creed Bratton
  • Music

• Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.

  

  Kehinde Wiley