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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Obedience opens the door to the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. And the spiritual gifts and abilities activated by the power of the Holy Ghost enable us to avoid deception - and to see, to feel, to know, to understand, and to remember things as they really are.
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
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I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
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I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.
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Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
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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.