Nan Goldin Quotes
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I studied Morse code.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm not going to worry about the critics until some of my peers start saying I'm a softie.
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Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.
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They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
