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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We're not just 'ladies in rock.' We're weird people!
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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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There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.
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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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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding.
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When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
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Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.
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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.
