David Hockney Quotes
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
