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Howard Hodgkin Quotes

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 6, 1932

Topics

Language Lost Say Anything Able Use

There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.

Joe Kennedy III

Health Suffering Sick Care Luxury

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

Brother Think Smoking Kind Big Used

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom Free Believe More Enslaved

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Live Relationship World Reality Feel

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

Morning Eyes People World Television

Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm really a jazz singer. I was impressed with Elvis - he was the handsomest guy I ever met in my life, and a very nice person, too. But the music doesn't impress me.

Life Music Me Black My Life Person

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Myself You Paths Down Rock Shoe

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

Good Best Yourself Good Things Hurt

I'm a workin' girl.

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Good Simple I Am Me You Lose

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

Appreciation Tea American Population

As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.

Respect New Way Protect Flu Borders

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