Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Quotes to Explore
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
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There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.
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My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.
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The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.
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This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
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I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
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I'm not fussy.
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Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.
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I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.
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Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.
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I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
