Confucius Quotes
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
Quotes to Explore
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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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 would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
