Damien Hirst Quotes

I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, 'I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist.' And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, 'How does it do that?' And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, 'How does that bee do that?'

Damien Hirst

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Young
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• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
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• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
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• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Path
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• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
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• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
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• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
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  • Frustrated

• I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Fun
  • Left
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• Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
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  • End

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
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• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
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• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Want
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  • Slavery

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
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• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men

• i see all of u. i hear all of u. i never want to let any of you down. i love u. and..thank u.

  

  Justin Bieber

• Whatever it is that you want to achieve, you absolutely can do it - you just have to apply yourself. Don't break the law... Buckle down and make the right choices.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Up
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• The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Work
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• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Heart
  • Trust
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• I was with this guy who was a plasterer, and at lunchtime he was eating a stuffed heart . . . I was thinking, 'I'm not like these guys. I'm an artist.' And I saw a bee come over to some flowers and get all the pollen out. I was looking and thinking, 'How does it do that?' And then the guy who was eating the stuffed heart said, 'How does that bee do that?'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Guy