Confucius Quotes
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
Tahar Rahim
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Yoko Ono
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
Karan Mahajan
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
Falk Hentschel
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
Ed Oxenbould
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
D. A. Pennebaker
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
Valentino Rossi
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
Iqbal Quadir
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
Aaron Ciechanover
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.
Joe Kaeser
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I want to own my own business because then I can be in control of everything.
Arlene Dickinson
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
J. K. Simmons
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My whole shtick is that I want to contribute to New York's culture via restaurants, nightlife, whatever... but to be more conscious, more aware, more sustainable. It's more than just 'being responsible as a culture.' It's having an ethical chain of production.
Hannah Bronfman
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I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
Dwayne Johnson
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius
