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

-- Damien Hirst

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Pet Quotes

“I'm getting older. I'm getting sexier. I'm getting meaner. I can still do what I do.”
“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.”
“People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person. They're more interested in the music. [Charlie Parker] was playing with me. That's the difference between the kind of musician I like to work with and singing with a musician who thinks he has to accompany me. That is so annoying I cannot tell you.”
“Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.”
“Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.”
“Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.”
“Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting. But no matter what path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning. In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.”
“Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.”

Source : Address at University of Exeter, October 26, 1978.

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