Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'