Kehinde Wiley Quotes

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

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• I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Natural
  • Warrior
  • Guess

• I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Best
  • Like
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• I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Work
  • Man
  • Day

• Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • May
  • Thought
  • Lies

• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Years
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  • Old

• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Sometimes
  • Mistakes
  • Medical

• The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Knowledge

• He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.

  

  Elton John

• Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.

  

  Allen Ginsberg

• I am not a collector of deserts!

  

  Benito Mussolini

• My blog is an extension of my thinking. Why should I deform my thinking simply because I live under a government that espouses an ideology which I believe to be totally against humanity?

  

  Ai Weiwei
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  • Thinking
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• As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Party
  • Friend
  • Tired

• I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Up
  • Church

• I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Girl
  • Knows
  • Said

• Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.

  

  John Gay
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Age

• You either are a good director or you're not.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Director

• When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

  

  Kehinde Wiley