Paul Gauguin Quotes
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
Quotes to Explore
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.
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And waste their music on the savage race.
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There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
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I've got a hockey record, I took off my skate and tried to stab a guy, I'm the only person who ever tried that.
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She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.
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If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
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When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.
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However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
