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.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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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.
Ted Yoho
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson
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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.
Edmund White
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson
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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.
Gayle Forman
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner
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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.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Maggie Gallagher
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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.
D. J. Cotrona
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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.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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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.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
Nate Diaz
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My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
Brian Tyree Henry
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I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.
Anton Corbijn
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One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
