Nick Cave Quotes
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
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I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.
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President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
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Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
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Jazz hadn't given her many details of exactly what life in the Dent house had been like, but he'd told her enough that she knew it wasn't hearts and flowers. Well, except for the occasional heart cut from a chest. And the kind of flowers you send to funerals.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
