Confucius Quotes
Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
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Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.
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I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
