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 always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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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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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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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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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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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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The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.
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I came out when I was 17 - coming out in middle or high school is one of the most difficult things that anyone could experience. I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.
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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
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Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.
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To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
