Nick Cave Quotes

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.

Nick Cave

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IdeasWritingSongStartFeelFall

There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.

Jess Row

PositiveRelationshipPeopleColor

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

Melanie Mayron

SchoolLearnDoingYouWantMore

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

John Tesh

MarriageThreeWillUpComeFour

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Steven Pinker

ReflectGenesEvenMostTabooCases

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Trina Paulus

LifeFoodBlessedFeelAnimals

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

Roger Miller

MusicWantLeaveMarkIndelible

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

Rita Moreno

GreatStoryYouDownKindJazz

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

ScienceDoubtTrueIgnorantAbove

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

Joshua Bell

BeautifulPeopleBeautiful Things

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Joshua Waitzkin

LifeBalanceMePhilosophyIntention

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

Don Nelson

TodayFightTeamGuyWhereTerrible

There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.

Douglas Coupland

GoodMoneyGood CompanyTradition

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