Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
Quotes to Explore
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
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You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
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Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
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For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
