Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.
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We play a very violent sport, and sometimes it leads to a lot of emotion, a lot of testosterone getting built up, and it comes out in various ways.
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
