David Hockney Quotes
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.
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We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.
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Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
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In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
