David Hockney Quotes
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.
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There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
