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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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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I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.
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The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
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I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.
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As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
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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
