Paul Gauguin Quotes
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.
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For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
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Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
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Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.
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I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
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If the vision is there, the means will follow.
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In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
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A great deal of thought must be given to your daughter's marriage. Otherwise, she will simply slink off like a cat on a dark night to be fertilized under a bush to God knows whom!
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Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
