Nan Goldin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
