Paul Shaffer Quotes
I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.
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My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
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I have a sweet tooth. I love dessert, and if somebody makes me one, I'm going to have it.
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No ends, simply means.
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Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.
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The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.
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Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.
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Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.
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A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
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You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
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My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.
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It's a family atmosphere and I think it's important for a young guy to have.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.
