Kehinde Wiley Quotes
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
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I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
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So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.
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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
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I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.
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Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
