Nick Cave Quotes
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I can do whatever I want.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste they use is internal, and says more about them than about the record they're writing about.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.
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Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
