David Hockney Quotes
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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There's something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an image issue, or it has been something where somebody told her she's not good enough. And every woman can relate to that.
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I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
