Kehinde Wiley Quotes
I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.
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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
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How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?
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I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.
