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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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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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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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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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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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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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 quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.
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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
