Xunzi Quotes
Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I've talked about that with friends, about what genre makes sense to choose for each record and the strategy around that... Sometimes it's more about the moment of time, and other times it's more about the sound of the song. Sometimes it's about what's going on in larger life, in politics.
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There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
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We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as if the two were quite separate kinds of realities.... Man is by nature a technological animal; to be human is to be technological.... When we speak of technology, this is another way of speaking about man himself in one of his manifestations.
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Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.
