Nan Goldin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -
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The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
