Confucius Quotes
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
Quotes to Explore
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.
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He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.
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Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
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Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character.
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The soul is the truth of who we are.
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We have learned nothing.
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People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
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We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
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All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.
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Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
