Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.Vincent Van Gogh
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel -
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Irving Babbitt -
There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
Edith Widder
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
Barbara Cooney -
Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
Malcolm Mclaren -
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
Carl Honore -
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. Pritzker -
I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
Ram Charan -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah -
'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
Daniel Defoe -
I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
Hannah Murray -
I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley -
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
Padma Lakshmi -
Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer -
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
Elif Safak -
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin -
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
Adam Sedgwick -
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
Vincent Van Gogh