David Hockney Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I got no hate in me.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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My childhood was appalling.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
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Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)
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A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.
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The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
