Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

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• Be obscure clearly.

  

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• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

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• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

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• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

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• I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

  

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• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

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• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

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• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

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• Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

  

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• According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

  

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• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

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• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  

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• Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.

  

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• In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel.

  

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm two people. I'm proud of who I am as a person, but I do want to be at a healthy weight.

  

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• In God's eyes, all creatures have value whether we find them cuddly, affectionate, beautiful or otherwise. Our own perspective-in a way-is neither here nor there. Theology, at its best, can help to liberate us from our own anthropocentric limitations

  

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• If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mean
  • Silence
  • Paint