Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
-
They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
-
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
-
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
-
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
-
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
-
Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
-
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
-
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
-
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
-
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
-
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
-
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
-
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
-
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
-
I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
-
No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
-
I truly believe that love is greater than politics.
-
Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.
-
I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.
-
In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
-
Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
