Confucius Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I'm curvy.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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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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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.
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I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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I wanted to have a book that showed there's no one way to sound black. I wanted to tell teens that the way you speak is okay; you're good the way you are.
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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
