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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'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.
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Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
