Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
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I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.
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The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.
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I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation...)
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
