Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
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I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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Safety should be a birthright.
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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I've conditioned myself to believe that almonds are a completely delicious snack, and that they don't taste like paper or get stuck in the back of my mouth.
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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going?
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Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
