Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
I like to do the splits onstage.
Gavin DeGraw -
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson -
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus -
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
Bart Starr
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev -
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford -
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence -
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
Lana Wachowski -
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
Calvin Johnson -
You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
Randy Couture
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
Kate McKinnon -
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum -
L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon -
I have always liked a challenge.
Damon Hill -
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian -
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
Walter Pater -
Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.
Mary Pipher -
Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
Elizabeth Warren -
Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
Charlie Trotter -
Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.
Barack Obama -
I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama.
Kehinde Wiley