Kehinde Wiley Quotes
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.
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A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.
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I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
