Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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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.
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I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.
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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.
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I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
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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.
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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.
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I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
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Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted.
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Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
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I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
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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.
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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
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The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
