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.

Nan Goldin

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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.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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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.

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• 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.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
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• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Opinion
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• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
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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.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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  • Parents
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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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• There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  

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• Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

  

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• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

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• I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

  

  Pink

• 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.

  

  Nan Goldin
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  • Work
  • Kids