Confucius Quotes
Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
Quotes to Explore
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
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Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.
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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
