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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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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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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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
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Being called a musical genius was a cross to bear. Genius is a big word. But if you have to live up to something, you might as well live up to that.
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I got through college.
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It's not something that I have to do tomorrow or next week. I feel real comfortable just taking my time.
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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
