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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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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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.
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If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset.
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Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.
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A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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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.
