Nan Goldin Quotes
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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My job, I thought, is to demonstrate that one can remain healthy. Demonstrate it to myself, no one else. If I am exposed to lizards, I will fight the lizards. If I am exposed to ants, I will fight the ants. If I am exposed to thieves, I will fight the thieves. If I am exposed to myself, I will fight myself.
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If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.
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When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I was nevertheless outside the language I was speaking, building simple sentences with the blocks I’d memorized, not communicating through a fluid medium.
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I think the wrong things are kept private
