Damien Hirst Quotes
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.
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My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
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I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
