Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.'
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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.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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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.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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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.
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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.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
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The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.
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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
