Dave Hickey Quotes

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

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• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Past

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice

• I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Idea

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Live
  • Artist

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Important
  • Trust

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• You are not to come to Christ because you are qualified, but that you may be qualified with whatever you want; and the best qualification you can bring is a deep sense that you have no worth or excellency at all in you.

  

  John Flavel
  • May
  • Deep

• Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

  

  Dave Hickey
  • People
  • Art