Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.
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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.
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A guy saw us play there and he asked us what the name of the band was. He liked the name but came back with some ideas.He had a letter (of the alphabet) for each of us: X, Y, and Z. He gave Question Mark the "?".
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
