Kehinde Wiley Quotes
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I'm not super into sports.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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Thus, the Earth was once a jungle world, a sweltering hothouse planet devoid of snow.
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People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
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CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.
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And then he only had eyes for the pie. Watch any man, he could be ninety years old and drooling spit, but at the sight of homemade pie every last one of his wits will spring to attention.
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I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
