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 knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together.
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Nobody has to go hungry today. There is plenty of work for a man who wants to work. A kid can make plenty of dough for himself doing almost anything. I was hungry. I had to fight my way along. Freights and the like, fight, fight all the time. The life was tough, but it hardened you.
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
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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.
