Confucius Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep!
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
