"What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in."

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Kehinde Wiley

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Portraiture Quotes

“Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”
“[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.”
“I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.”
“If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.”
“We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.”
“Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.”
“It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.”

Source : Max Gunther (2010). “The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them”, p.166, Harriman House Limited
“I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Luke Goss" by Luke Goss, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.

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