Confucius Quotes
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Sam Rockwell
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
Abbey Clancy
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Patrick Dempsey
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Wendy Kopp
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
Val Kilmer
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
Taylor Wilson
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
Daniel Clowes
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
Stevie Wonder
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A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Sophocles
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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.
Nicholas Delbanco
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One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
Hermann Hesse
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
