David Hockney Quotes
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.
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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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Let's make sure that the Internet stays open to those who need it the most.
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Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.
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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'
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It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.
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I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.
