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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In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.
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I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.
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The extremist people hate me. They speak about me in the mosques and pass round leaflets condemning me as un-Islamic.
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A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
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It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
