Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
M.I.A.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Daniel D. Palmer
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
Karen Mills
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
Barbara Mandrell
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
Bea Arthur
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
Leonardo da Vinci
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac
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When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
Claire McCaskill
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My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
David Allee
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
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It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things - extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.
Brian Aldiss
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I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
Dan Hicks
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Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.
Karamo Brown
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Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
Vincent Van Gogh
