Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
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You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
