Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Max Bialystock: That's it, baby, when you've got it, flaunt it, flaunt it!
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Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and take up with the wrong people.
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...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.
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Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.
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Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
