Confucius Quotes
If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
Quotes to Explore
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
