Kehinde Wiley Quotes
At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
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Plays are frequently infected with ideas that came from actors or even sound engineers. Some Shakespeare scholars wonder whether some of the Bard's lines came from onstage improvisations by actors.
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Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
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At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.
