Nick Cave Quotes
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
Quotes to Explore
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends.
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Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
