Confucius Quotes
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.
Quotes to Explore
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
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This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue, and I think that the leading economies are very pragmatic and efficient in addressing the issues facing the European economy. That is why we keep approximately 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros.
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When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
