Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I will run against anybody.
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Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
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Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.
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Cities are where the climate battle will be won or lost.
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
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The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
