Rashid Johnson Quotes
The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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I think rock'n'roll essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.
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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
