Paul Gauguin Quotes
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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Was sich thun lässt, so lange Philosophie und Poesie getrennt sind, ist gethan und vollendet. Also ist die Zeit nun da, beyde zu vereinigen.
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What I did or didn't do, I think it's over now. And what I will or will not do, I think is also over.
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I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
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As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
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When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life.
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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
