Nan Goldin Quotes
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
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I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
