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 dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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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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I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
