David Hockney Quotes

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

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• I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
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• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
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• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
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• I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

  

  Barry Lam
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• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

  

  Gary Player
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• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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• That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

  

  Jack Anderson
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• The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  

  Jennifer Rowe
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• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Reality
  • Attention

• East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

  

  David Hockney