Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.
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I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
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I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.
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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.
