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.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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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?
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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.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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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.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love doing impressions and I love doing accents.
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The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.
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We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.
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I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.
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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
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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.
