Paul Gauguin Quotes
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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
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In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size.
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Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
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Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition, or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disfranchisement, by exile, or by death.
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It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.
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Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you.
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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
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The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
