Confucius Quotes
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I love books.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
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I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
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I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring normal lives.
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My mom is my biggest fan. She’s been a fan since I was a baby.
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'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
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It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.
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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
