David Hockney Quotes
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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I'm really funny now.
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!
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Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.
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I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.
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I don't have money. Monsanto has money.
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In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine.
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When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people’s children, I’m doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
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By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.
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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
