Nick Cave Quotes
Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
Quotes to Explore
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
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I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.
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Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Work to make a living; serve to make a life.
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Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.
