Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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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.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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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.
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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.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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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.
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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.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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The human condition: lost in thought.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
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I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
