Nick Cave Quotes
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
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Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.
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For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
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There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
