Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Guy

• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • You
  • Crazy

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • America
  • Earth
  • Leaders

• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Why
  • Perception
  • Lawyer

• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Rest

• Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Attention
  • Military

• I am a woman above everything else.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Woman

• I think that God has revealed Himself to many at many times and in many places. Indeed, He continuously reveals Himself to man today : every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • God
  • Today
  • Science

• I am moved by fancies that are curledAround these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Suffering

• What goes up can continue.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up

• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • House
  • Dark
  • Deep

• Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.

  

  Ovid

• Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

  

  Neil Abercrombie
  • Good

• My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Paradise

• However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • School

• Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Love
  • Books
  • Read

• I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat