Paul Gauguin Quotes

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

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• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• Every villain needs her story told.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Needs
  • Story
  • Villain

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Just

• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

  Carl Rogers
  • May
  • Change
  • Relationship

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Time

• In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Lost
  • Player
  • Chess

• Niggas die everyday, all ova bullshitDope money, dice games, ordinary hood shitCould this be cuz of Hip Hop musicOr did the ones with the good sense not use it?

  

  T.I.
  • Good
  • Money
  • Die

• I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Dad

• One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.

  

  Byron Howard
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Job
  • Beautiful
  • Hand

• People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Stop

• I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Air

• These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

  

  David A. R. White
  • Up
  • Growing

• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Strong

• The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Lifestyle

• I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

  

  Baba Amte
  • Help

• That enforced time when you have to switch off, that you're on a plane, is so unusual these days. It's just that thing of not being able to interact with other people through e-mails or social media or whatever. It's crazy how you even notice that you're not able to do that. I find that the kind of traveling - long days, particularly if you go somewhere to do a show, and then traveling again the next day - a lot of people would find pretty challenging, but I find it energizing in a weird way.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Social Media
  • Challenging
  • Traveling

• Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Love
  • Hate

• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Stupid
  • Knows
  • Silly