Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

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• A president can't go to every memorial service.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Service
  • President
  • Memorial

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Green

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • World
  • College
  • Graduation

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Smart

• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Marketing
  • Hear
  • Jam

• 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.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Amazing

• I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Old
  • Three

• Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • Idea
  • Everyone
  • India

• I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Comfortable

• I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Man
  • Me
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Doctor

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Religion
  • Need

• Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Black
  • Years

• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Business
  • Romance
  • Melancholy

• One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Succeed
  • Spoil