Paul Gauguin Quotes
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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I'm playing every day. I still want to win.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
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Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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I'm getting fat ... as I planned. Luckily, my gut is intentional. I'm actually preparing for a big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll.
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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
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I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
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In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
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One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
