Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Love is a state of being.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
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I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
