Nick Cave Quotes

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

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• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Song

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.

  

  Manika
  • Night
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Process

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• I support all Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Support
  • Films
  • Australian

• The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Greatest

• There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

  

  T-Pain
  • You
  • Know
  • Start

• Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • Car
  • Exercise

• Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Life
  • Respect

• I don't want to compare President Obama and President Trump on these issues, because they're different, and the scale isn't even remotely the same. But President Obama said things that weren't true and got away with it more for a variety of reasons, and one is the media was much more supportive of him.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Different
  • True
  • Trump

• In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • Time

• In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing.

  

  Elliott Abrams

• Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Future

• If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Human
  • Friendship
  • Russia

• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Vision
  • Record
  • Representation

• Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Earth
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Earth

• It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Australian
  • Dismissive