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 loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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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 never really saw myself as a standup comedian. I always just thought of myself as someone who used the eight minutes or 10 minutes she was allotted and had a blast.
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I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
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... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
