Confucius Quotes
Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
Quotes to Explore
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.
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A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.
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Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.
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What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.
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Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.
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The seeing have the world in common.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
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Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
