Nick Cave Quotes

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

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• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Change
  • Care
  • Gender

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
  • Grateful
  • Cheers

• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Fear

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guitar
  • Radio
  • Hip Hop

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• I'm a darned good listener.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Listener
  • Darned

• Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Faith

• One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Humility

• I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • People
  • Great

• In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You don't just need skills and talent, you also need luck.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Luck

• I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • World
  • Way
  • Duty