Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I get a great high from writing.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
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I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.
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A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.
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My parents came from little, so they made a choice to give a lot: buying turkeys for homeless shelters at Thanksgiving, delivering meals to people in hospices, giving spare change to those asking for it.
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
