Confucius Quotes
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra -
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
Dan Castellaneta -
I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written.
Elizabeth Berg -
I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.
Ali Fazal -
The old fiction room at my high school was a small box of wonders, and no matter how long I spent investigating its seven and a half overstuffed shelves, I never stopped discovering treasures.
Alaya Dawn Johnson -
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
Angie Thomas
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Years ago, I couldn't get arrested in commercials because of my look: 'Is he Jewish, Hispanic, or African-American?' I ended up doing voiceover work, which has been great. Honestly, I can't complain.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.
Chris Lilley -
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones -
Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.
Kyan Douglas -
Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
Meg Tilly -
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
Brenda Blethyn
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Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.
Joseph Brodsky -
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Francis Jeffrey -
I was hoping to go under (one minute) 29.5 and it is quite fun when the bike is working and the lap comes together.
B. R. Hayden -
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.
Zadie Smith -
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
Barack Obama -
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert
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As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.
Esther Renay Dean -
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
Brian Tracy -
So many Americans don't have their car serviced at the car dealer. But there's often a break in the knowledge stream between the manufacturers and independent repair shops. What manufacturers needed to do was bring highly trained technicians back in contact with consumers through the dealer.
Michael Rose Black Uhuru -
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
Confucius