Gary Hume Quotes
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
