Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't like controversy.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'
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The nature of everything is illusory and impermanent. Those with dualistic perception believe suffering is happiness. It is as though they are licking honey from a razor blade. How sad it is that they grasp to a concrete reality. Turn your attention within.
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To the novice, it doubtless seems a conundrum that lies can have their basis in fact. Consider, however, the individual’s need to have his or her desires met. This is fact. If lies are clever enough to fulfill this desire, they become a truth and, therefore, that much harder to dispel.
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My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.
