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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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
