Paul Gauguin Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
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Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.
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... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
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‘Alf Todd,’ said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ‘has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat’s ear with a red-hot needle.’
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.
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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
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The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
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You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.
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Yet look again - His horn is free,Rising above chain, fence, and tree,Free hymn of love; His hornBursts from his tranquil browLike a comet born;Cleaves like a galley's prowInto seas untorn;Springs like a lily, whiteFrom the Earth below;Spirals, a bird in flightTo a longed-for height;Or a fountain bright,Spurting to lightOf early morn - O luminous horn!
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There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.