Damien Hirst Quotes
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
