Confucius Quotes
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
Quotes to Explore
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main events and extend my range to other freestyle and medley races.
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
