David Hockney Quotes
Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
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I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.
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I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
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'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.
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Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?
