Damien Hirst Quotes
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.
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I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
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I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.
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Birkenstock desert boots have been a part of pop culture since the beatniks. I made such a fuzz about them being discontinued that the company send me an 'lifetime supply', which initially turned out to be seven pairs at two years apiece. They weren’t giving me very long. I think that’s why I gave up smoking.
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Out of what... a thousand?
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
