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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I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in the jacuzzi - we weren't old enough - so I would charge people $1, and everyone would line up, and everyone would sit in this disgusting hot water-sand-filled thing, and I would get $1 and go to the snack bar and get an Oreo.
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I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach.
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I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life.
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I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.
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Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.
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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.
