Nan Goldin Quotes
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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I saw a play in a black box theatre, and it changed my life.
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
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Keeping this picture on my desk reminds me that nothing is ever too far gone to be treated right.
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
