Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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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.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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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.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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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.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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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.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
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The final lines are not mine: they come from an experiment on soft matter, after Boudin… An English translation might run like this:
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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Surely all God's people, however serious and savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes, - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
