Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
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Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
