Kehinde Wiley Quotes
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.Kehinde Wiley
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy -
Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
Sam Graves -
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
Naval Ravikant -
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Ian Anderson -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
Vincent Cassel
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
Wendell Mayes -
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Vernon Howard -
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
Warren Farrell -
You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
Halsey -
Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
Dan Jenkins -
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
Zach Anner -
I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
Jackee Harry -
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza -
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Zong Qinghou -
I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
Natalie Massenet
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We have to get it done, that's no excuse.
Allen Iverson -
I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!
Amber Heard -
'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
Jacki Weaver -
Me myself, I wanna wear sweats with my Jordans one day or a dress with my Jeffrey Campbell.
Karen Civil -
I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.
Christopher Moore -
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends.
Kehinde Wiley