Kehinde Wiley Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.
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I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
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I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.
