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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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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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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Age merely shows what children we remain.
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More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.
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I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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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.
