Kehinde Wiley Quotes

I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.

Kehinde Wiley

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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Joe Biden

EconomyTaxesDisasterOutMiddle

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

John Boyega

TruthWorldYouFindWillPortray

I've had some really big hits with 'Groundhog Day' and 'Michael,' 'Multiplicity,' 'Four Weddings and a Funeral.'

Andie MacDowell

DayFuneralBigFourSomeReally

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

MusicSchoolYouFindBluesJazz

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Anita Diament

GoodAmericaEverythingSomething

Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.

John Sandford

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My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

Amanda Donohoe

LoveAloneMyselfMeSisterWorld

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

Steven Van Zandt

GreatnessFunReachYouNothingWay

Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.'

Trixie Mattel

GreatPeopleMeWeirdAttentionWay

When we tour, there's always this unique quality to every town you visit... Touring, you get a sense of a collective identity for different cities. That's one of the things I love about my job.

Mat Kearney

LoveQualityJobIdentityYou

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Mike Mills

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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

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