Michelangelo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.
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People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.
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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
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I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
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I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
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Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
