Nick Cave Quotes
If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
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The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
