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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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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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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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 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'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!
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I think the one I'm most proud of as a songwriter is 'Breaking Your Heart' because it was just a different style for me. It was very - I feel like it was very old-timey Patsy Cline. It's got a very '50s feel to it, and I pushed myself to write those lyrics very intimately with my co-writer Ted Bruner.
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I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
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Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
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Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.
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My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world.
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Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
