Nan Goldin Quotes
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
