Confucius Quotes
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
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I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
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For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
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A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.
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I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.
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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
