David Hockney Quotes
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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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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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
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He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
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I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I'm in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We're all kind of finding our niches and becoming successful. I think that it's just been really fun to be with them and do this all together.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
