Paul Gauguin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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The 'control mechanism' view of culture begins with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public - that its natural habitat is the house yard, the market place, and the town square.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.
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Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
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There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
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Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
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You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.
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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.
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There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.
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Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
