Damien Hirst Quotes
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I always played to win.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy's autograph. I'd tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, 'People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.' But she couldn't really grasp it.
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Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
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Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
