Nick Cave Quotes
Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
Quotes to Explore
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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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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
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I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?
