Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
Adam McKay -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook -
I choose to focus on the positive.
Halima Aden -
I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
Eddie Izzard -
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Damian Lewis -
I just have work to do; I just do it.
Ian MacKaye -
Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Samuel Johnson -
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!Take all! Despite you there is yet one thingI hold against you all, and when, tonight,I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,I bear away despite you … My panache.
Edmond Rostand
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
Barbara W. Tuchman -
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
Abigail Adams -
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
John Burroughs -
This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.
Kevin Rudd -
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
Anthony Powell -
Dolce cosa era la patria.
Ludovico Ariosto
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I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
Mireille Enos -
You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There's no excuse for not.
Ben Affleck -
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
Pablo Neruda -
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
Vincent Van Gogh