David Hockney Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting -
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
Becky Lynch -
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
Zendaya
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor Swift -
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable -
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. Richter -
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
Harry Belafonte -
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
Gail Sheehy
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson -
I don't have many friends.
Larry David -
I'm a historian in my own mind.
Quentin Tarantino -
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Caitlin Rose -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Basil Hume
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I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
Kimberly Elise -
Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.
Eric Metaxas -
I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
Joseph O'Neill -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
Chris Abani -
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
David Hockney