Paul Gauguin Quotes
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
Quotes to Explore
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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I'm a plodder, not a planner.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
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I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
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When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
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To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
