Confucius Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
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We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.
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I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.
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I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.
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Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
