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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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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.
