David Hockney Quotes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
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Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
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My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.
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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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'The media have gone berserk.''The media always go berserk. A kid falls off a bike in Montana, they’re all over it. Until something else happens.'
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Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.
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We should learn from the mistakes and experiences of others, particularly from those less knowledgable than we are. If our experiences are not grounded in reality, our decisions can never be correct.
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I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
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I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
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Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.
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There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
