Nick Cave Quotes
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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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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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.
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All the great people and great things in life are failures. It is in doing what we cannot do but must try to do that humans rise to their exalted fulfillment. Maglie had tried to do with an old man’s arm and back what a young man might not have been able to do as well. Of such failures is greatness made.
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I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.
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I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
