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.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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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.

  

  Dan Webster
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• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
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  • Finishing

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
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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.

  

  Felix Dennis
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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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• 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.

  

  Gary Larson
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• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
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• Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

  

  Kate Bush
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  • Life
  • Stop

• I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
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• It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.

  

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  • Up

• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Work
  • Great
  • Friends

• You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

  

  Kanye West
  • Music

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids