Nick Cave Quotes

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

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• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
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  • Small
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• The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Words
  • Inspired

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
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• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
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• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Music
  • Nerd

• Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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  • Help
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• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
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• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Something

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
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• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
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  • Comedy
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• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead

• The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Common

• Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Star

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Imagination
  • Profound
  • Deserted

• Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Husband

• Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.

  

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