Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I had tried my best to bring in representatives of the Indian community, but fear for the safety of their families has been a real inhibiting factor.
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
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Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."
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Cheeseburger in paradise!
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I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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Once the well should be emptied of its water. All the mud should be removed. The water which then comes is the purest. Jnana is like this pure water. Once you burn away the thought of 'I' and 'mine', then non-attachment to the objects of the senses will result of its own accord.
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Beginning now is much better than never beginning at all.
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Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
