Mencius Quotes
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
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Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.
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I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.
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Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.
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I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
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Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.
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In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you'll be met with whiteness.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
