Paul Auster Quotes
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I want to be my own person.
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My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I'm not a real social person - I'm shy - and a lot of the business is just social.
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It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
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I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
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Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.
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I really respect fashion, but I don't follow trends to be honest, I'm much more into skateboarder style clothes, but I really like fashion photography, portraits, and stuff like that.
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No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.
