Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.
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It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.
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I was a cute kid.
