David Hockney Quotes

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Fall
  • Battle

• My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • World
  • Math
  • Walk

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• The purpose of a business is to create customers.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Business
  • Purpose
  • Create

• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Country
  • Identity
  • Diversity

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Superhero

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Easy
  • Cards

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Waste
  • Cannot
  • Idleness

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Sorry
  • Cute

• When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Time
  • Children
  • School

• In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Party
  • English

• I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

  

  David Hockney
  • English