Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The world is no longer against us.
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
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You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.
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Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
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Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
