Confucius Quotes
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
Quotes to Explore
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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
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I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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Music is a language.
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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
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Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
