Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.
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I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
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'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
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My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
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My door is open.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
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Ambition is the mind's immodesty.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
