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'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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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
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So it goes.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
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I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
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After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
