Damien Hirst Quotes
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.
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I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
