Confucius Quotes
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
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We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
Garry Kasparov -
Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
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People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.
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Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!
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There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
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My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
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I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
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I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
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If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
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I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.
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When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar.
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You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.
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Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
