Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
Quotes to Explore
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.
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I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
