Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.
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Country music isn't about being better than the guy next to you - it's just making sure that you keep working hard enough to deserve the position that you get in.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
