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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The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended by the song 'The Vatican Rag'. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.
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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.
