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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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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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
