Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
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Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
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The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
