Confucius Quotes

Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.
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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
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I'm shocked that I can live pretty well, or reasonably, or make a certain amount of my living, anyway, off of prints. I guess it's nuts. I don't believe in it. I never anticipated it; I still don't believe it.
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If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
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What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
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I'm dragging the audience to hell with me
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
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The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
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I'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?