Nan Goldin Quotes

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.

  

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• What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

  

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• Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

  

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• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

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• I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

  

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• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

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• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  

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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

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• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  

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• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  

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• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

  

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• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  

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• Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

  

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• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

  

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• Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder.

  

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• Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
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• I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Pretty
  • Heroin