Kehinde Wiley Quotes

I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Power

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • Sacred
  • Communion

• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Force
  • Individualism

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Tired
  • Sick

• I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Food
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary

  

  Joan Baez
  • True
  • Soul
  • Scary

• What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove.

  

  Bernard Lazare
  • Soul
  • Secret
  • Evidence

• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Water

• I need to open a restaurant, a big soul food restaurant in Beijing!

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Soul
  • Food