Confucius Quotes

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

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• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

  

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• I don't talk in ifs.

  

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• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

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• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

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• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

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• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

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• When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

  

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• I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

  

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• I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

  

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• It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

  

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• To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

  

  Confucius
  • Proud
  • Difficult
  • Murmuring