Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
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Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor's sufferings and derring-do.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
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What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
