Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.
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All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.
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I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.
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Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
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I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
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If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
