Peter Doig Quotes
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
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He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that maybe he was changing into someone else. Everyone was always becoming someone else.
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As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
