David Hockney Quotes
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Quotes to Explore
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
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That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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"Should we tamper with nature?" is no longer a question - we've tampered with nature on the whole face of the Earth.
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I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
