Confucius Quotes

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• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Will

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Weird

• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Children
  • Job
  • Remember

• You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Man
  • Way
  • Lazy

• The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Name

• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Busy

• There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • World
  • Men

• The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Path
  • Mad
  • Tears

• One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Destiny
  • Importance
  • Depends

• I would like people to be more aware of the fact that ultimately we are paying for things, and it's not just as privacy advocates point out that we're paying with our time and our data. We're also paying with money, because the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising is just factored into the cost of the goods that we buy. It's all coming out of our pocket, just in a really roundabout way.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Advertising
  • Privacy

• The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

  

  Confucius
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