Kehinde Wiley Quotes
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.
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One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
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I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
