David Hockney Quotes
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
Quotes to Explore
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.
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Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
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If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
