Confucius Quotes
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I keep everything fans give me, if I can, but I do worry about when I run out of room in my house!
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I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.
