Confucius Quotes
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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War settles nothing.
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When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
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When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
