Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Real
  • America
  • Career

• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Own

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Equal

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Strong
  • Goal
  • Be Strong

• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Natural

• I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Mom
  • Son
  • Laughter

• It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movie in between 'Empire' and 'Return of the Jedi,' where Luke is training. It's so much cooler to cut from end of 'Empire' to beginning of 'Return,' where he's become the Jedi.

  

  David Benioff
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Victory

• You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Today
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
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