Nick Cave Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.
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In doing that which we most enjoy, we will probably make our most significant contribution to society, and the contribution we make to society determines our rewards.
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
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The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.
