Confucius Quotes
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
Quotes to Explore
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
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I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.
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I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.
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Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.
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In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.
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I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.
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I love 'MacGyver.' I do!
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If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.
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It was one of history’s great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
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I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
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I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!
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I drink blood, you eat tacos, get the f*ck over it!" -Michel Glass
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
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Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
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I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
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Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
