David Hockney Quotes

I'm a natural sceptic.

David Hockney

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• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Control
  • Always
  • Inside

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • You
  • Running

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • Comedy

• I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Space
  • Sunshine
  • Italy

• My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Grandmother

• I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Always

• To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Size
  • Fat
  • Ducks

• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • World
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
  • More

• He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Moral

• It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

  

  Javier Camara
  • War
  • Funny
  • Violence

• When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

  

  Jordana Brewster
  • Different
  • She
  • Crazy

• It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

  

  Kaka
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Blood
  • Aids

• The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

  

  Bruce Barcott
  • World
  • Comeback
  • Rainier

• I'm a natural sceptic.

  

  David Hockney