Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damien Hirst

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. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

Damien Hirst

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

Damien Hirst

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

Damien Hirst

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

Damien Hirst

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

Damien Hirst

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Damien Hirst

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

Damien Hirst

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Damien Hirst

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Cynthia Breazeal

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Cynthia Breazeal

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.

Cynthia Lennon

Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it was a loving thing to do and wishing John did it for me. But that would have been too obviously demonstrative, maybe, for John.

Cynthia Kenyon

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.

Cynthia Heimel

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

Cynthia Heimel

Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

Cynthia Nixon

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

Cynthia Nixon

When [Nancy Reagan] was presented with people who she really felt like weren't going to [judge her], there was such a floodgate of affection and warmth and physical affection that, most of the time, was kept at bay because, "Oh, someone's going to say something." I think that [because of] so many things that happened to her in her childhood, but also in the press.

Cynthia Nixon

I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.

Cynthia Nixon

I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore

Cynthia Nixon

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

Cynthia Nixon

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

Cynthia Nixon

I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

Cynthia Nixon

I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

Count Basie

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

Count Basie

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

Cory Doctorow

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...

Cory Doctorow

... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.

Courteney Cox

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

Courteney Cox

I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.

Courteney Cox

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.

Courteney Cox

Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible.

Courteney Cox

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

Courteney Cox

I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.