Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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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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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
