Nan Goldin Quotes
I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Marx was the magnificent philosopher of working class violence.
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The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.
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Running has been almost my savior.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
