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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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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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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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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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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I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.
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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
