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.
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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.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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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.
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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.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face – it gives me a natural lift.
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I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
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Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
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I like to see a driven kid: somebody who wants to come from the ground up. I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.
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You give me the feeling that the universeWas made by something more than humanFor something less than human.But I identify myself, as always,With something that there's something wrong with,With something human.
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Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.
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Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.
