Nick Cave Quotes
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
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Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?
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Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
