Damien Hirst Quotes
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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We shred every day.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
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If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.
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Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
