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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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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Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.
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I read this book a few decades ago, on a trip to some of the territories of the old Byzantine Empire, during which an emotional relationship came to an emotionally draining end, so it may retain some of the hectic inanity of my personal life, but great works are fractal, reflecting both our grand ambitions and our petty failures.
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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.
