Damien Hirst Quotes
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
Quotes to Explore
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
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I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.
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Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
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There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.
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I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
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But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
