Damien Hirst Quotes
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
