Damien Hirst Quotes
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.
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People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.
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The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government - quite unlike minorities in other countries. The circumstances here are far more complex than many people in Washington imagine.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
