Nan Goldin Quotes
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
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I am always at the beginning.
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If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
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Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.
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I have very healthy strong relationships with women.