Confucius Quotes
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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But I think we need the international market.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
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All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
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As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
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The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
