Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
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Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in 'Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them', by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).
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The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.
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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
