Nick Cave Quotes
My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.
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I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.
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“People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”
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If nothing else, I have money.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.
