David Hockney Quotes
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
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Design is Law
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I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.
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I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
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I mean the NHL never called me and wanted me to show up at the draft.
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Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
