Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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The simple fact was that she no longer hated them as a matter of principle. It was also a source of shameful amazement that she could ever have wasted so much energy on groundless prejudice, when acceptance and tolerance would have been the easier, even the lazier, course.
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I find society's underlings and people with interesting idiosyncrasies the most watchable. But I also love to mimic people who are ego-driven and kind of go through the world like lions.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
