Confucius Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
Kate Middleton -
Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
Ted Cruz -
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay -
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand -
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Natalie Massenet -
I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
Idris Elba -
Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
Buddy Holly -
Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.
Friedrich Schiller -
You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
Oswald Chambers -
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
Leon Blum -
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
Yasmina Khadra -
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde -
As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.
Dalai Lama
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
William S. Burroughs -
Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
Barry Levinson -
I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.
William Harvey -
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius