Damien Hirst Quotes
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
