Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
Fiona Apple
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Quentin Blake
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
Nadia Comaneci
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. Taylor
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
Tamar Braxton
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Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
Vincent Cassel
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?
Ellen Barkin
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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
Bernice King
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In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
C. Wright Mills
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
