Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.
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If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
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These initial findings are troubling and the committee ... will continue with its own investigation of the STAR program to get at the truth and inform Congress for the future.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
