Nick Cave Quotes
There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I have always loathed working out.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.
