Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
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If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability to accurately record reality. There are photographers who think they are lucky if they find unusual or special subject. But it is never the subject that is so marvelous. It is how alive and real the photographer can make it.
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If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
