Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.
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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
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I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.
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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
