Confucius Quotes
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Quotes to Explore
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
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My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
