Nan Goldin Quotes
I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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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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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
