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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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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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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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth,your heart is completely free.
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Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
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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.
