Kehinde Wiley Quotes

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

Kehinde Wiley

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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

Sam Altman
- Cool
- Happen
- Most
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

Adam D'Angelo
- Time
- Done
- Meetings
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- Good
- Believe
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

Ian Mckellen
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

Jack Welch
- Country
- America
- Health
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

Natalie Massenet
- Want
- Stone
- New Things