Confucius Quotes

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Love
  • Me
  • Know

• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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  • Never
  • Season

• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
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  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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  • Two
  • Doodle

• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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  • True
  • Singing

• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

  Venus Williams
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  • Know
  • Everything

• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Feel

• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Know
  • Hate

• I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Me
  • Know

• What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • True
  • New
  • Often

• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Me
  • Know

• When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Know
  • Cool
  • Person

• You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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  • Children
  • Trying

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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  • Up
  • Important

• It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

  

  Confucius
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