Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
Quotes to Explore
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I love doing fashion.
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If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.
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Pluto is the new Mars.
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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
