Confucius Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I was born free.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
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In order to have a continuing influence, the stock market has to continue rising at an accelerating pace faster than exponential. Only a faster-than-exponential stock market growth makes private investors feel richer.
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All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
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As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
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The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?
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All people are the same; only their habits differ.
