Nick Cave Quotes
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
Walter O'Brien -
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
Mahesh Babu -
Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
Larry David
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister -
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler -
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
Dan Aykroyd -
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Hafez -
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch -
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
Vijay Kumar -
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. Murray Edwards -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David
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I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama -
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon -
I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
Venus Williams -
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde -
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
Kay Redfield Jamison -
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party