Confucius Quotes
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I have a great office.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
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If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
