Paul Gauguin Quotes
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credetServitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extatQuam sub rege pio.
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
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I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
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I ask how far away the eye can discern a non-luminous body, as, for instance, a mountain. It will be very plainly visible if the sun is behind it; and could be seen at a greater or less distance according to the sun's place in the sky.
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I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?