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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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'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.
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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.
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I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
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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?
