Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

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• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• 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.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Science
  • Where

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• 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.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Together
  • Society
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • American
  • Think
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• 'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Fans
  • Twilight
  • Got

• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Imagine
  • Eating
  • Meat

• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Intuition
  • Paid
  • Instincts

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • People
  • Live
  • Book

• It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

  

  Faris Badwan
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Natural

• Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Life
  • Hurt

• There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

  

  Kaki King
  • Know
  • Australia
  • Sydney

• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Why
  • Nature

• If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Painting
  • Bored