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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Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
Alma Gluck
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
Jean Baudrillard
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Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?
Willow Shields
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When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.
Sue Wicks
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What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. Highest Common Factor, and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce.
C. S. Lewis
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
