Paul Gauguin Quotes
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
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People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
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Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
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Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
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I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'
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We've shown a willingness to do the right thing, and we've shown a willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion. The problems are on the Republican side.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
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Multinational companies use their technological know-how in their foreign subsidiaries, so reciprocal multinational relationships are key - they lead to a vested interest in both countries to remaining open.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
