Paul Gauguin Quotes

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Paul Gauguin

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• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

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• I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

  

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• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

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• I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  

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• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

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• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

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• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

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• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

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• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

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• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

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• I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

  

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• Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

  

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• What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

  

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• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

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• I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.

  

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• I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

  

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• I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

  

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• As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

  

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• When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

  

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• A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Man
  • Commit
  • Folly