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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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
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The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
