Nan Goldin Quotes
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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All religions have been made by men.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
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There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France.
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I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.
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What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
