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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Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.
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I try to be as efficient as possible.
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There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
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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.
