Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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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 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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'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.
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Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.
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The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
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My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
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He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
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I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
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Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
