Confucius Quotes
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
Quotes to Explore
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
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It makes no sense that this country has 11 million workers feeding, building this country, making America what it is, and they don't share the same rights of those who are consuming the fruit of their labor.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
