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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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
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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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You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
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What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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When we reorientate our lives on the person and teachings of Jesus, we become free to follow him wherever he leads—even if it is in an opposite direction as where our religious tradition might lead us.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
