Paul Gauguin Quotes
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I miss baseball.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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There has been a meeting and discussions are still in progress. The talks have been taking place between the two sides here and in the United States.
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It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
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No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.
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If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.
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I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
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The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.
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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
