Kehinde Wiley Quotes
My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Writers are so important.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.
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I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the same time, as a low-income trans girl of color, there were so many things that I didn't have access to. I didn't have access to a great education. I didn't have access to affordable healthcare.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.
