Dave Hickey Quotes
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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I am a contrarian.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
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The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still.
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I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.
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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behaveBut no one can be free until we're all on even grade.
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I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
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The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.
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If you walk on the path of truth all the powers in the universe help you.
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If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.
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If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
