Confucius Quotes
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
Quotes to Explore
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.
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My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
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I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
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Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
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I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.
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Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
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Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall
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The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.
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Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.
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I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
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Hicks is inch-for-inch, pound-for-pound the toughest player in basketball. We played really good defense against a good ball club.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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Hearing the way we can dance in and out of a few different worlds and keep the music credible. It just feels like a natural progression to take this to the bigger leagues.
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
