Nick Cave Quotes

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

  

  Kanye West
  • President
  • Run
  • Decided

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Growth
  • Unique
  • Promise

• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Heart
  • Wife
  • Anger

• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • The Right Thing

• When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Direct

• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Money
  • Success
  • Support

• Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Like
  • Tax

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wisdom
  • Expect
  • Others

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Thinking

• A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Fruit
  • Bark
  • Cellulose

• Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Funny

• I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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