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• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Order, Color

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• I work out five days a week, I can't imagine not doing it.

  Gwen Stefani

  Work Out, Imagine, Week

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• I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

  Don Imus

  Unique, Want, Position

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• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

  John Searle

  Believe, Numbers, Effort

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• Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

  Roger Penrose

  Real, Knowing, People

  "Secrets of the Old One". "The Groks Science Show" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

  An Na

  Cutting, Half, Careful

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• I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.

  Lesley Howarth

  Trouble, Can Do

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• It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Delight, Bangladesh

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• Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

  Ha Jin

  Writing, Thinking, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012

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• Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

  Richard Krajicek

  Winning, Play, Looks

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• I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

  Richard Krajicek

  Thinking, Perfection, Tennis

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• I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Christian, Names, Tyrants

  "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.

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• Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Masters, My Own, Whips

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house”, p.33

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• I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Risk, Ugly, Surprise

  Helen Frankenthaler, Barbara Rose (1970*). “Frankenthaler”

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• I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

  Lee Krasner

  Alive, Canvas, Breathe

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• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  Edvard Grieg

  Clouds, Greek, Church

  Edvard Grieg, Finn Benestad (2000). “Letters to colleagues and friends”, Peer Gynt Pr

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• I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Praying, Comfortable

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

  Royal Robbins

  Climbing, Feet, Long

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• I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

  John Keegan

  Nukes, Extinction, Situation

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• Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Israel, World, Force

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• The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Strong, Fighting, Opponents

  "Sharon’s Last Option" by Martin Van Creveld, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Hate, Writing

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• Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

  Terry McMillan

  Writing, Feels, Judged

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