Confucius Quotes
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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I run all the brands like cousins. You want your cousins to do well, but you want to do better. All of our brands want to win, but we certainly want to fight fair and coordinate as much as we can behind the scenes. But to the consumer, we want to offer the broadest, most competitive set of products that we can.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.
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All three games came down to the last play.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
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We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
