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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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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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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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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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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I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
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I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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I don’t think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.
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Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
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We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.
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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.
