Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.
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There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
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I think it possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world-ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects, and creeds. But it was an attempt.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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τοῖς μὲν οὖν τότε, ἅτε οὐκ οὖσι σοφοῖς ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς οἱ νέοι, ἀπέχρη δρυὸς καὶ πέτρας ἀκούειν ὑπ᾽ εὐηθείας, εἰ μόνον ἀληθῆ λέγοιεν: σοὶ δ᾽ ἴσως διαφέρει τίς ὁ λέγων καὶ ποδαπός.
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There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
