David Hockney Quotes
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.
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(Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'
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God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.
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There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
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In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
