Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
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I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.
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I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
