David Hockney Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they've earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.
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When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
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I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
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I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
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Britain is a very small country with a very large press.
