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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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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.
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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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When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.
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Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
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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.
