Nan Goldin Quotes
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Excellence always sells.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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Women can have a career, but the real career is to be a woman. It's beautiful to be a woman and give birth.
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Men like Jackson were so upright and honest-seeming, but Hooch knew that there wasn’t no such thing as a good man, just a man who wasn’t bought yet, or wasn’t in deep enough trouble, or didn’t have the guts to reach out and take what he wanted. That’s all that virtue ever boiled down to, so far as Hooch ever saw in his life.
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I love my dad. He's the biggest thing in my life. He taught me and he straightened me out and he kept me in line. If it hadn't been for him standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
