David Hockney Quotes
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
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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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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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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
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I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
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As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
