Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
Quotes to Explore
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.
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Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
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I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
