Zhuge Liang Quotes
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.
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Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.
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Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
