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 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 spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
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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.
