Nan Goldin Quotes
I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
Quotes to Explore
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality. And when this happens, she always becomes once again the evil seductress, whereas, paradoxically, God has specifically enjoined her to combat evil.
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I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
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If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
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I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
