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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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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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar.
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There are more lives yet, there are more worlds waiting, For the way climbs up to the eldest sun, Where the white ones go to their mystic mating, And the Holy Will is done.
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You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
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Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
