Kehinde Wiley Quotes
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I believe that I have such a vanilla life.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
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When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
