Nick Cave Quotes
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
Narciso Rodriguez
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
Randa Haines
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
Flume
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh
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Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
Harry S Truman
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Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.
Urvashi Vaid
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We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.
James Young
Styx
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The operators should be able to manage the scene.
Ken Russell
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I wanted to write a very anathematic pop song. If you had to choose one great thing in your life, what would it be?
Stuart Adamson
Big Country
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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party