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 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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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
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I'm fed up with being bossed around.
