Paul Gauguin Quotes
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
Quotes to Explore
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.
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My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
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The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.
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Baby if you give me just one more try
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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.
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To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
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Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.
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I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.
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I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
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We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
