Nico Quotes (1938-1988)

Actress, Singer, Composer

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Nico (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), born Christa PΓ€ffgen, was a German fashion model, actress, singer, and composer.

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β€œYou are beautiful and you are alone.”
β€œBanish the faceless reward your grace
Banish the faceless reward your grace.”
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β€œOften the adolescent plague
Reward your grace
Confuse your hunger capture the fake...”
β€œI have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.”
β€œYou will never see these lights
Glowing in your nights
If you don't know
And there are roses growing in the snow.”

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Nico on Modernity 4 quotes

β€œThe modern soul is a lunar landscape.”
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Nico on Money 2 quotes

β€œDespising money is like toppling a king off his throne.”
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Nico on Percy Jackson & the Olympians 2 quotes

β€œAs always, the subject of Bianca lay between them like a loaded gun-deadly, easy to reach, impossible to ignore.”
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Nico on De Broglie–Bohm theory 2 quotes

β€œGenerally, position measurements sometimes reveal information about Bohmian positions, but never full information and sometimes none at all. Simple and handy criteria for determining when the Bohmian position measurements of a particle under test highly correlate with the position of the center of mass of some large pointer are still missing. Bohmian mechanics is attractive to philosophers because it provides a clear ontology. However, it is not as attractive to researchers in physics. This is unfortunate because it could inspire brave new ideas that challenge quantum physics.”
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Nico on Universe 2 quotes

β€œWe find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For here the penetrating observer can note why the forward and the retrograde movement of Jupiter appears greater than that of Saturn, and smaller than that of Mars, and again greater with Venus than with Mercury; and why such retrogression appears oftener with Saturn than with Jupiter, less often with Mars and Venus than with Mercury. Moreover, why Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, when they rise in the evening, appear greater than when they disappear and reappear [with the sun]...And all this results from the same cause, namely the motion of the earth.”
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Nico on Jupiter 2 quotes

β€œWe find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For here the penetrating observer can note why the forward and the retrograde movement of Jupiter appears greater than that of Saturn, and smaller than that of Mars, and again greater with Venus than with Mercury; and why such retrogression appears oftener with Saturn than with Jupiter, less often with Mars and Venus than with Mercury. Moreover, why Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, when they rise in the evening, appear greater than when they disappear and reappear [with the sun]...And all this results from the same cause, namely the motion of the earth.”
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Nico on Mercury (planet) 2 quotes

β€œWe find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For here the penetrating observer can note why the forward and the retrograde movement of Jupiter appears greater than that of Saturn, and smaller than that of Mars, and again greater with Venus than with Mercury; and why such retrogression appears oftener with Saturn than with Jupiter, less often with Mars and Venus than with Mercury. Moreover, why Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, when they rise in the evening, appear greater than when they disappear and reappear [with the sun]...And all this results from the same cause, namely the motion of the earth.”
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Nico on Saturn 2 quotes

β€œWe find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For here the penetrating observer can note why the forward and the retrograde movement of Jupiter appears greater than that of Saturn, and smaller than that of Mars, and again greater with Venus than with Mercury; and why such retrogression appears oftener with Saturn than with Jupiter, less often with Mars and Venus than with Mercury. Moreover, why Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, when they rise in the evening, appear greater than when they disappear and reappear [with the sun]...And all this results from the same cause, namely the motion of the earth.”
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Nico on Animation 2 quotes

β€œAnimated porn has a long, international historyβ€”from the erotic woodblock prints of Japan’s Heian period to some of the earliest animated erotic cartoons of the Roaring Twenties (because of course once the moving picture came along, porn came with it). So if hentai and anime communities still thrive online and there are sites dedicated to Disney-inspired porn, it seems a shame that more people don’t talk about what makes this type of erotica so great. Clinical psychologist David Ley, PhD, author of Ethical Porn for Dicks, says that β€œanimated erotica has been underground for a long time, largely because it’s often misunderstood.” Not only are cartoons something we regularly associate with childhood, but the style of a lot of pornographic cartoons is such that some characters featured may appear to be under the age of consent. β€œThough I might question how exactly you determine the age of a fictional animated character,” Ley added in an email to Glamour.”
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Nico on Lisbon Treaty

β€œThis was France’s idea from the start.”
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Nico on Ambition

β€œLove, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.”
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Nico on A Simple Favor (film)

β€œBlake Lively – Emily Nelson / Hope McLanden and Faith McLanden”
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Nico on Egotism

β€œAbove any ego and any political adversity, there is the interest of Romanians.”
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Nico on The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

β€œThis isn't the film I would have chosen if I'd wanted to make a big political statement!”
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Nico on Sage (philosophy)

β€œThere are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.”

Nico on Refusal

β€œEvery day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.”
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Nico on Emo revival

β€œWe were the few people doing this in 2008. Really bad, wussy emo rock 10 years after it was relevant.”
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Nico on Quebec

β€œI do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.”
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Nico on Intelligence

β€œYour intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chΓ’teau does to its owner.”
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Nico on Frugality

β€œAnyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.”
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Nico on Asceticism

β€œAnyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.”
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Nico on Autonomy

β€œAnyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.”
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Nico on Escape

β€œAnyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.”

Nico on Prudence

β€œ[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.”
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Nico on Science

β€œNothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist’s opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.”
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Nico on Vasyl Slipak 5 quotes

β€œI told about Vasyl to French composer Pierre Thilloy, my good acquaintance, and offered him to write a small piece. He creates music which is easy to listen to, and he agreed immediately and said he would like to visit the premiere.(2017)”
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Nico on Kahlil Gibran 4 quotes

β€œDo you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills.”
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Nico on Arnulf Baring 3 quotes

β€œSince we Germans have low self-esteem, we didn't dare ask immigrants to make efforts to integrate. In this respect, we have guided the Isolation Trend Advancement. Many politicians hoped that foreigners who β€œremained authentic” would stir up Germany in a positive way.”
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Nico on Grace Paley

β€œshe knew so well how be free in them”
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Nico on Rembrandt

β€œOn 4 October 1669 [my] cousin, Rembrant van Rhijn, painter died.”
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Nico on Paolo Borsellino

β€œIf young people deny it their consent, even the all-powerful and mysterious mafia will vanish like a nightmare.”

Nico on Edie Sedgwick

β€œSome things you are born to, and Edie was born to die from her pleasures. She would have to die from drugs whoever gave them to her.”
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Nico on Colin Wilson

β€œThe twenty-first century may look back on Colin Wilson as one of the novelists who foresaw the future of fiction, and something, perhaps, of the future of man.”
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Nico on Anita Pallenberg

β€œI knew her since we were first hanging out in London with The Rolling Stones. She was a real nasty person. She would do anything to upset her girlfriends. I don't know her anymore.”
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Nico on David Lee Roth

β€œMaybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.”
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Nico on Javier Milei

β€œYou are wrong, Milei [...] you who were put in Argentina to destroy the rule of law, to destroy the State, to destroy all social and labour rights, to destroy the national economy and to colonise Argentina and deliver it to the knees of North American imperialism.”
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Nico on Chris Martin

β€œI can't remember a time when he (Chris) wasn't making music, he'd write songs about anything. Spaghetti. My gerbils. It didn't matter. Everybody believed in his talent and drive, but we were from a village in Devon and that sort of thing doesn't happen from places like that.”
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Quotes About Nico

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Brian Eno on Nico

β€œJohn Cale did a really interesting version of Heartbreak Hotel, in a minor key. It's incredibly suicidal. I mean you could never believe that that song could turn out to be such a downer as that... Nico did Deutschland Über Alles, which was very good... and she did The End by The Doors, which is the one they put on the album... Nico doing The End was so chilling, it really was. It was incredible. She invests it with so many levels of meaning I didn't hear in the Doors' one. She underplays it... there's just the harmonium, me playing synthesizerβ€” almost doubling the harmonium partβ€” and her singing... which is just like a rich, kind of non-specific miasma of sound...”
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James Young on Nico

β€œ"Of course, it's her own sexuality that she's denying", he continued. Did I know that she'd been raped as a teenager in Berlin? I didn't. Nico was working as a temp for the U.S. Air Force. A black American Sergeant had raped not only her, but other girls under his employ. She'd kept quiet about it, but he was found out and court-marshalled. She had to testify for the prosecution at his trial. He was sentenced to death and shot. Nico was 15. "Not only does she have to carry the horror of the rape but the secret guilt of somehow being complicit, by her testimony, in his execution. Sex for Nico....is irrevocably associated with punishment."”

About Nico

Nico (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), born Christa PΓ€ffgen, was a German fashion model, actress, singer, and composer.