Nan Goldin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I love to write.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.
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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
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If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.
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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
