Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.
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I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
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What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
