Confucius Quotes

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Changed

• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • World
  • Today
  • Rest

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Scary

• He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • True
  • Christian

• Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

  

  Usher
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Today

• The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Question
  • Minute