Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
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I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.
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I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
