Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
-
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
-
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
-
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
-
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
-
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
-
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
-
I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
-
I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
-
Life is not easy in politics.
-
You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
-
One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
-
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
-
I think I'm going to be around awhile.
-
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
-
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
-
It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.
-
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
-
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
-
I wanted to build up a name for myself.
