Nick Cave Quotes
No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
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I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
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You are handed your job as the old king or queen dies... It is not a life sentence, but a life of service.
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Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
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If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now
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No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.
