Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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“I’ve hardly ever had to pay to get in.”
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
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A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
