Damien Hirst Quotes
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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A will finds a way.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
