Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
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For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.
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By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
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The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.
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No place has delicatessen like New York.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.
