Nick Cave Quotes
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
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The long, forensic interview really matters.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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I've got some words of wisdom.
