#iv

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#away #basketball #baskets #everyone #get

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conceive #estimates #false #great #i

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#done #great #great change #history #optimists

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#divided #least #life #my life #performing

I'm privileged that I'm an artist. ↗

— Nelly Furtado

#i #privileged

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man