Xunzi Quotes
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
Quotes to Explore
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I often reread books I have written.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you can’t separate experience from the work of art. So, if I write for the symphony today, you’re listening to everything that’s happened to me since I was 18 years old.
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I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!
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I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.
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If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.
