Nick Cave Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!
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I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
