David Hockney Quotes
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson Whitehead -
The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
