Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!
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We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
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They say survival is Nature’s only form of flattery.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
