Nick Cave Quotes
It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
Quotes to Explore
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.
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It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.
