Confucius Quotes
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
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I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
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If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.
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I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
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Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
