Damien Hirst Quotes
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.Damien Hirst
Quotes to Explore
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback -
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
Samantha Bee -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
Carl Wilson -
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
Maeve Binchy -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Patrice Motsepe -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
Dan Hawkins -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot -
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
D'Angelo
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
R. C. Sproul -
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
Pat Metheny -
I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.
Chelsea Handler -
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.
Vincent Price -
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
Damien Hirst