Paul Gauguin Quotes
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!
Quotes to Explore
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
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The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
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I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
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Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.
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for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!
