Nan Goldin Quotes
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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Confess and be hanged.
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That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.
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One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
