Nan Goldin Quotes
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
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Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.
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I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.
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The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
