Confucius Quotes
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
Quotes to Explore
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
