Kehinde Wiley Quotes

By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
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• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
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• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Myself
  • Taken
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• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
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• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
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• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
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• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
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• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
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• Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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  • Money

• I'm absolutist on Trump. He shouldn't be president. We should limit the damage he can do as president. And we should try as hard as we can to prevent him from being renominated or reelected.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Trump

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
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  • Silence

• I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Weekend

• Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer

• By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

  

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