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!
Quotes to Explore
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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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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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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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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
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We don't have to be in the lead, or get the publicity for everything we do. What's important is that we pull out all the stops to leverage every way we can make a difference when people are in great need.
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All my life, I've really enjoyed music: making music, playing it, and recording it. It's such a relief and a joy to do what I do for a living.
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I was in a really bad place. ... I wanted to find the joy of it again, ... You lose sight of the reason you got into it. ... you start making that dime and all of a sudden ... it gets weird. I started losing the joy of it all, and I wasn't happy anymore.
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To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
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The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.
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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!
